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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE IN YEARS | Scarlet fever | Whooping cough | Acute poliomyelitis | Measles | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-paralytic | |||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | . | 1 | 8 | 5 | . | . | . | . | 11 | 8 |
| 1—2 | 2 | . | 9 | 15 | 2 | 1 | . | 133 | 132 | |
| 3—4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 21 | . | . | . | . | 185 | 185 |
| 5—9 | 13 | 10 | 31 | 47 | 2 | . | 2 | . | 428 | 361 |
| 10—14 | . | . | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | 9 | 5 |
| 15—24 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 |
| 25 and over | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| TOTALS | 18 | 18 | 60 | 91 | 4 | . | 3 | 2 | 769 | 695 |
| 36 | 151 | 4 | 5 | 1,464 | ||||||
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Dysentery | Erysipelas | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 5 | 2 | . | 8 | 6 | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | . |
| 5—14 | . | 2 | 19 | 14 | . | . | 1 | 4 | . | . |
| 15—44 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 12 | . | 3 | 2 | 6 | . | 12 |
| 45—64 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | . | . |
| 65 and over | 11 | 14 | . | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | . | . | . |
| TOTALS | 34 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 14 | . | 12 |
| 66 | 67 | 10 | 22 | 12 | ||||||
There were no cases of diphtheria or ophthalmia neonatorum