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Marylebone 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 22.—Notifiable Diseases and Notifications.
| * Notifiable Disease | Cases notified in whole Borough | Cases removed to hospital | Cases isolated at home | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages-years | ||||||||||||||
| —1 | 1— | 2— | 3— | 4— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 20— | 35— | 45- | 65— | ||||
| Acute Encephalitis (Post-Infecious) | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Scarlet fever | 9 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 8 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - |
| Dysentery | 81 | - | 12 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 12 |
| Measles | 107 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 28 | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | 52 | 55 |
| Whooping cough | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Scabies | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| Tuberculosis- Pulmonary | 42 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 15 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 21 | 21 |
| Non-pulmonary | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | 2 | - | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Food poisoning | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Totals | 277 | 6 | 32 | 25 | 31 | 23 | 55 | 6 | 8 | 51 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 166 | 111 |
*There were no cases in the Borough of the following diseases which are also notifiable: Smallpox,
diphtheria, membranous croup, cholera, typhus fever, relapsing fever, continued fever, plague,
leprosy, hydrophobia, glanders, farcy, anthrax, malaria, induced malaria, paratyphoid fever,
typhoid fever, ophthalmia neonatorum, meningococcal infection, erysipelas.
TABLE 23.—Tuberculosis: New Cases and Deaths.
| At ages— years | *NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0-1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1-5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5-15 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15-25 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 25-35 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 35-45 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 45-55 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| 55-65 | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 6 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Totals | 44 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | - | 2 |
*Including all primary notifications and also any other new cases of tuberculosa which
came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year.