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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
Hornsey 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE-F
| DISEASE | Wards | Ages | Total | Admitted to Joint Hospital. | Admitted to other Hospitals. | In Nursing Home. | Nursed at Home. | Registered Deaths | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highgate | Muswell Rill. | Crouch End | West Hornsey | East Hornsey | North Haringey | South Haringey | Stroud Green | Finsbury Park. | 0-l | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 and over | |||||||
| Small Pox | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 5 | - | 4 | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 20 | 25 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 7 | - | 25 | 61 | 26 | 9 | 2 | - | 123 | 89 | 5 | - | 29 | - |
| Diphtheria | 7 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 1 | - | 15 | 30 | 16 | 8 | 1 | - | 70 | 61 | 6 | - | 3 | 4 |
| Typhoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| Para Typhoid | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||
| Pneumonia | 3 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | - | 4 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 52 | 10 | 11 | - | 11 | 66 |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 28 | 15 | - | - | 13 | - |
| Puerperal Fever | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | 4 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 9 | - | - | 14 | - | 13 | 1 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Poliomyelitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Meningitis | - | - | - | - | 1 | — | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | 1 | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 39 | 58 | 24 | 41 | 57 | 31 | 16 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 48 | 101 | 63 | 51 | 29 | 13 | 308 | 75 | |||||
| Tuberculosis : | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 20 | 25 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 20 | 13 | - | - | 3 | 39 | 69 | 32 | 3 | 146 | 54 9 | ||||
| Non-Pulmonary | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 28 | |||||
| Total | 64 | 86 | 31 | 70 | 82 | 48 | 32 | 51 | 28 | 4 | 51 | 116 | 109 | 125 | 61 | 16 | 482 | 181 | 45 | 2 | 80 | 138 |
| Admitted to Joint Isol. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hospital | 19 | 38 | 11 | 23 | 36 | 18 | 8 | 18 | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Other Hptls. | 12 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Nursing Homes | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
| Nursed at Home | 8 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Note.—The following 97 cases were also admitted to the Isolation Hospital in addition to the above:—16 Measles, 11 Measles and Pneumonia. 14 Tonsilitis, 9 Influenza, 3 Chicken-pox, 3 Mastoid, 3 Gastro-Enterltis, 2 Gastritis, 2 Laryngitis, 1 Pharyngitis, 1 Bad Throat, 1 Quinsey, 1 German Measles, 1 Whooping Cough, 1 Whooping Cough and Pneumonia, 1 Measles, Whooping Cough and Pneumonia, 1 Adenitis, 1 Colic, 1 Rheumatism, 1 Mental derangement, 1 Sepsis, 4 Local sepsis, 2 Septio fingers, 1 Septic toe, 1 Injury to face and hand, 1 Injury to hand, 1 Injury to wrist, 1 Injury to knee, 2 Vaccination, 4 found not to be Enterio Fever, 1 Enteric found to be Appendicitis, 1 found not to be Cerebrospinal meningitis, and 3 for observation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||