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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 WARDS
Highgate
Muswell
Hill
Crouch
End
Central
Hornsey
North
Harringay
South
Harringay
Stroud
Green
Finsbury
Park
TOTALS
Scarlet fever
2
4
4
8
2
1
7
-
28
Whooping cough
-
3
-
1
7
4
3
-
18
Measles
43
31
60
125
84
65
183
42
633
Acute pneumonia
1
5
1
2
15
4
5
2
35
Dysentery
2
3
5
2
3
1
3
1
20
Food poisoning
2
1
-
-
2
-
-
-
5
Erysipelas
-
-
-
1
-
1
1
-
3
Puerperal pyrexia
-
6
-
-
-
1
-
-
7
Ophthalmia neonatorum
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
2
Para-Tyhpoid fever
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
Ac. encephalitis
Infective
-
-
_
-
—
—
—
—
—
Post infectious
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
TOTALS
52
53
70
139
113
77
203
45
752
5.
N.B. To maintain comparison with previous years no account has been taken of changes in Ward "boundaries which came into force early in 19£^