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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASED
| Notifications | Removed to Hospital | Deaths | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | |
| Polio-Myelitis | 2 | 2 | - |
| Diphtheria | 48 | 48 | - |
| Erysipelas | 9 | 7 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 109 | 69 | - |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | - |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 14 | 8 | - |
| Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | 4 | 4 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | - | |
| Measles | 276 | 71 | |
| Pneumonia | 12 | 1 | 34 |
| Dysentery | 15 | 9 | |
| if/hooping cough | 106. | 36 | - |
| Malaria | 5 | - | |
| Scabies | 34-7 | - | - |
| Typhoid | 1 | - | 1 |
| Food. Poisoning | 1 | 1 | - |
| Corrected Diagnosis: Diphtheria 1 | |||
Non-notifiable -diseases - removed to hospital
| German Measles. | 3 |
| Chicken-pox | 20 |
| Mumps | 24 |
| Gastro Enteritis | 45 |
| Septic Abortion | 1 |
The incidence of Diphtheria was markedly loss.
VACCINATION
| Number of Certificates of successful primary vaccination of children under 14 received during 1946 | 1,153 | |
| Number of persons vaccinated by the Public Vaccinators for the City: | ||
| Primary | 553 | |
| Secondary | 38 | |
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS
| Diphtheria - negative 306; positive | 26 |
| Tuberculosis - negative 124; positive | 50 |
TUBERCULOSIS Now Cases and Deaths
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | N on-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | V. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 to 5 .years | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 5 bo 10 " | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 10 to 5 " | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - |
| 15 to 20 " | 7 | 9 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| 20 to 25 " | 7 | 11 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 |
| 25 to 35 " | 21 | 16 | - | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| 35 to 45 " | 21 | 9 | - | - | 5 | 3 | 1 | - |
| 45 to 55 " | 13 | 2 | - | - | 17 | - | - | |
| 55 tc 65 " | 11 | 3 | - | - | 13 | 2 | - | - |
| 65 & upwards | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| 94 | 58 | 4 | 5 | 45 | 18 | 4 | 1 | |