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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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES Notifiable Diseases (Other than Tuberculosis)
| Under 1 yr | 1 - | 2 - | 3 - | 4 - | 5 - | 10 - | 15 - | Over 25 yrs. | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measles | 11 | 43 | 33 | 18 | 29 | 68 | - | 5 | - | 207 | |||
| Whooping Cough | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 1 | - | - | 12 | |||
| Dysentery | 3 | 4 | - | - | 3 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 47 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 36 | 4 | 2 | - | 61 | |||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Acute Meningitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||
| Acute Poliomyelitis:- | |||||||||||||
| Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Under 5 yrs. | 5 - l4 | 15 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | Total | ||||||||
| Acute Encephalitis:-Infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Post Infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Leptospirosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | -- | - | -- | - | |||||||
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 7 | |||||||
| Tetanus | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Infective Jaundice | 11 | 119 | 69 | 7 | 2 | 208 | |||||||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Yellow Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||