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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Ac. Poliomyelitis | Ac. Polioencephalitis | Measles | Diphtheria | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0-1 | - | -_ | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 13 | 18 | - | - |
| 1-3 | 3 | - | 13 | 18 | 1 | - | - | - | 87 | 100 | - | - |
| 3-5 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | 105 | 98 | - | - |
| 5-10 | 25 | 38 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 133 | 121 | - | - |
| 10-15 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 6 | 1 | - |
| 15-25 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 25- | 4 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | - | - |
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | |
| TOTALS | 55 | 54 | 45 | 53 | 14 | 18 | 2 | - | 347 | 350 | 2 | |
| 109 | 98 | 32 | 2 | 697 | 2 | |||||||
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE | Ac. Pneumonia | Dysentery | Ac. Encephalitis Lethargica | Enteric or Typhoid Fever | Paratyphoid Fevers | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Cerebrospinal Meningitis | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0-5 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 5-15 | 2 | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 15-45 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 45-65 | 8 | 10 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | |||||||||||
| 65- | 6 | 10 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TOTALS | 27 | 39 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| 66 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||