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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE IN YEARS | Scarlet fever | Whooping cough | Acute poliomyelitis | Measles | Dysentery | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-paralytic | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||||||||||
| Under 1 | . | . | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 10 | 10 | 1 | . | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | . | . | . | . | 37 | 33 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 2 | . | 6 | 1 | . | . | . | 35 | 34 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | . | . | 48 | 52 | 1 | . | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 59 | 47 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 5-9 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 2 | . | 2 | 4 | 145 | 172 | 12 | 8 | |||||||||
| 10-14 | 4 | 5 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||
| 15-24 | 3 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| 25 and over | . | . | . | . | 2 | . | 1 | . | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 23 | 30 | 25 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 344 | 363 | 34 | 27 | |||||||||
| 53 | 46 | 13 | 9 | 707 | 61 | ||||||||||||||||
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Ac.encephalitis | Meningococcal infection | |||||||||||||||
| Infective | Post-infec. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||||
| Under 5 | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | ||||||||
| 5-14 | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | ||||||||
| 15-44 | 4 | 8 | . | . | . | 2 | 12 | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | ||||||||
| 45-64 | 14 | 6 | . | 2 | . | 4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | ||||||||
| 65 and over | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | ||||||||
| TOTALS | 37 | 33 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 12 | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | 1 | ||||||||
| 70 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
There were no cases of diphtheria. A baby girl suffering from ophthalmia neonatorum was nursed at home. There
was no impairment of vision.