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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| AGE IN YEARS | Scarlet fever | Whooping cough | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Measles | Dysentery | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 | – | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 12 | 10 | _ | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 26 | 29 | – | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | 37 | 35 | – | – |
| 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 37 | 38 | – | – |
| 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | – | – | 30 | 27 | – | – |
| 5-9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 | – | – | 91 | 93 | 3 | – |
| 10-14 | – | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | – | 5 | 6 | 1 | – |
| 15-24 | – | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | _ | 3 | 2 | – |
| 25 and over | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| TOTALS | 15 | 25 | 20 | 23 | 1 | – | 239 | 242 | 12 | 5 |
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Typhoid fever | Ac encephalitis Infect- Post ive Infectious | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 5 | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| 5-14 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| 15-44 | 5 | 7 | – | _ | _ | 2 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| 45-64 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 | – | _ | _ | 1 | – | – | – | – | |
| 65-and over | 5 | 12 | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | –- |
| TOTALS | 28 | 31 | 1 | 3 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
There were no cases of diphtheria. The baby boy suffering from ophthalmia neonatorum was nursed at
home. There was no impairment of vision.