Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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TABLE II. (b).
Measles—Willesden, 1909.
showing the incidence ot measles upon children definitely exposed to infection, distributed according to age and history of previous attack.
Age Period. | Contacts Exposed. Total Number. | Stated to have suffered previously. | Stated not to have suffered previously. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Contacts Exposed. 4. | Contacts Attacked. 6. | Per Cent. | Contacts Exposed. 5. | Contacts Attacked. 7. | Per Cent. | ||
0—6 months | 73 | — | - | — | 73 | 6 | 8.22 |
6 months—1 year | 41 | - | — | — | 41 | 39 | 95.2 |
Under 1 Year | 114 | - | — | — | 114 | 45 | 39.5 |
1—4 | .386 | 46 | 5 | 1.09 | 340 | 274 | 80.6 |
4—5 | 106 | 34 | 2 | 5.88 | 72 | 53 | 73.6 |
Under 5 years | 606 | 80 | 7 | 8.75 | 526 | 372 | 70.72 |
5-6 | 87 | 39 | 1 | 2.56 | 48 | 30 | 62.5 |
6—7 | 101 | 66 | 1 | 1.51 | 35 | 24 | 68.6 |
7—8 | 140 | 105 | — | — | 35 | 14 | 40.0 |
8—9 | 152 | 125 | 6 | 4.80 | 27 | 11 | 40.8 |
9—10 | 158 | 139 | 1 | 0.72 | 19 | 7 | 36.8 |
5—10 | 638 | 474 | 9 | 1.89 | 164 | 86 | 52.4 |
10—15 | 50.1 | 466 | 3 | 0.64 | 35 | 7 | 20.0 |
15 & upwards | 1808 | 1735 | — | — | 73 | 4 | 5.48 |
Totals . . | 3553 | 2755 | 19 | 0.69 | 798 | 489 | 61.3 |
Notk.—This Table has been kindly supplied by the Medical Officer of Health
of Willesden.