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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
Barking 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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TABLE 11.
| Notifiable Disease | No. of cases notified at age groups | Cases classified according to Wards | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under one year | 1 to 2 years | 2 to 3 years | 3 to 4 years | 4 to 5 years | 5 to 10 years | 10 to 15 years | 15 to 20 years | 20 to 35 years | 35 to 45 years | 45 to 65 years | Over 65 years | Totals | Abbey | Cambell | Eastbury | Gascoigne | Longbridge | Manor | Park | Parsloes | |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Scarlet Fever | – | 12 | 25 | 32 | 34 | 211 | 84 | 22 | 21 | 4 | 3 | – | 448 | 33 | 99 | 78 | 73 | 21 | 59 | 41 | 44 |
| Diphtheria | – | 4 | 14 | 15 | 21 | 135 | 54 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 1 | – | 278 | 17 | 83 | 71 | 20 | 10 | 36 | 12 | 29 |
| Enteric Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | – | – | – | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – |
| Puerperal Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 3 |
| Pneumonia (ac. primary, ac. influenzal & following measles) | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 93 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 9 |
| Erysipelas | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 38 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 15 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | – | 1 |
| Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Food Poisoning | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 3 | – | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| Acute Polio Encephalitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 34 | 23 | 43 | 51 | 56 | 365 | 149 | 40 | 50 | 37 | 32 | 17 | 897 | 82 | 209 | 182 | 121 | 37 | 113 | 63 | 90 |
3. NON-NOTIFIABLE ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(a) Measles, etc.—The most important of these are measles, whooping cough
and summer diarrhoea. Deaths registered were as follows:—
Measles 1
Whooping Cough 2
Summer Diarrhœa 7
Chicken-pox –
(b) Rheumatic Fever.—Rheumatic fever, as I have said elsewhere, is a serious
problem in Barking.
(c) Influenza.—There were 9 deaths from influenza during the year 1935.
This contrasts favourably with 12 deaths in the year 1934, and 21 deaths in the
year 1933.
I feel I must repeat that the general public look upon influenza far too lightly.
It is wrong for people to keep at work and otherwise to mix freely with people
when they are likely to spread disease.