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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 1964
[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 | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Measles | Dysentery | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F. | M | F | |
| Under 1 | 1 | - | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 13 | 14 | - | - |
| 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | - | 42 | 42 | 1 | — | |
| 1 | 1 | — | 3 | — | — | 44 | 39 | 1 | 3 | |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 42 | 2 | — | ||
| 4 | 1 | — | — | 44 | 33 | 1 | — | |||
| 15-24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| 25 and over | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| TOTALS | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 343 | 290 | 9 | |||
There were no cases of diphtheria.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Para typhoid fever | Ac. ancephalitis | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infective | Post Infectious | |||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | F | M | F | M | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5-14 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15-44 | 3 | 5 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 45-64 | 5 | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 65 and over | 2 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 15 | 20 | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |