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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| AGE IN YEARS | Paralytic | Non-paralytic | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | . | . | 2 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 3 | . | . | . |
| 1-2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | . | . | . | 1 | 5 | 4 | . | . | . | . |
| 3-4 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 7 | . | . | . | . | 2 | 7 | . | . | . | . |
| 5- 9 | 28 | 29 | 15 | 11 | . | . | 1 | . | 5 | 9 | . | . | . | . |
| 10—14 | 6 | 5 | 1 | . | 1 | . | 3 | 6 | . | . | 1 | . | ||
| 15—24 | . | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 2 |
| 25 and over | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . |
| TOTALS | 46 | 48 | 33 | 28 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 30 | 3 | . | 1 | 2 |
| 94 | 61 | 1 | 2 | 47 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Dysentery | Erysipelas | Malaria | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Meningococcal infection | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 5 | . | 1 | 28 | 23 | . | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | 1 | . |
| 5—14 | 2 | 2 | 50 | 42 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 8 | 3 | . | . | . | . |
| 15—44 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 38 | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | 6 | . | 8 | . | . |
| 45—64 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 2 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| 65 and over | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
| TOTALS | 21 | 27 | 94 | 115 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 10 | . | 8 | 1 | . |
| 48 | 209 | 12 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||
| The infants with ophthalmia neonatorum were treated in hospital There was no impairment of vision | ||||||||||||||