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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 1960
[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 Paralytic | Meningococcal Infection | Measles | Dysentery | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | 1 | _ | 3 | 12 | _ | _ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| 2 | 3 | - | 9 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 11 | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | . | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| 5-9 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 24 | 1 | - | - | - | 10 | 11 | 13 | 11 |
| 10-14 | 12 | _ | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 |
| 15-24 | 1 | . | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | _ | 3 | 4 |
| 25 and over | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 14 |
| TOTALS | 30 | 10 | 45 | 69 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 37 | 45 | 40 | 49 |
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Paratyphoid fever | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | F | M | F | ||||
| Under 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | _ | 1 | _ | ||||||
| 5-14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | |||
| 15-44 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 7 | - | - | |||
| 45-64 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| 65 and over | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| TOTALS | 17 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | - | |||
| There were no cases of diphtheria or ophthalmia neonatorum. | ||||||||||||