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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| AGE IN YEARS | Scarlet fever | Whooping cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Meningococcal infection | Measles | Dysentery | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | 14 | 10 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | . | . | . | . | 31 | 32 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | . | • | 49 | 49 | . | 4 | |||
| 3 | . | 3 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | 25 | 35 | . | 1 |
| 4 | 7 | 3 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 55 | 46 | 1 | 1 |
| 5-9 | 22 | 30 | 4 | 4 | 1 | . | . | . | 166 | 126 | 8 | 6 |
| 10-14 | 5 | 3 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| 15-24 | . | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 25 and over | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| TOTALS | 38 | 45 | 14 | 12 | 2 | . | . | 1 | 344 | 308 | 21 | 30 |
| 83 | 26 | 2 | . | 652 | 51 | |||||||
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Typhoid fever | Erysipelas | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||
| Under 5 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | ||
| 2 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | |||
| 15-44 | 4 | 2 | . | 1 | . | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | II | ||
| 45-64 | 9 | . | . | . | . | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | . | ||
| 65 and over | 11 | 9 | . | . | . | . | 4 | . | . | . | ||
| TOTALS | 29 | 13 | 1 | . | 5 | 10 | 6 | 11 | ||||
| 42 | 1 | 16 | 16 1 | 11 | ||||||||
| There were no cases of diphtheria or ophthalmia neonatorum. | ||||||||||||