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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
Beckenham 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]
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26
DIPHTHERIA.
Fifty-nine cases of Diphtheria were notified, 33 males and 26
females, as compared with 18, 42 and 42 in the three preceding years.
In two cases a boy, aged 4 years, and a girl, aged 10 years, the
disease proved fatal. The diagnosis of Diphtheria was confirmed by
bacteriological examination in all of the 59 cases nptified.
The following are the ages in age-periods of those attacked: —
| 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-20 | 20-30 | 30-40 | 40 & upwards. |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Table giving the distribution of the cases in the various wards and the month of the year in which they occurred: —
| Month. | Wards. | Totals. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copers Cope. | Eden Park. | Kent House. | Langley Park. | Laurie Park. | Manor House. | Shortlands. | ||
| January | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| February | • •• | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| March | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||
| Apri. | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| May | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
| June | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | ||||
| July | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| August | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| September | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||
| October | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| November | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||
| December | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Totals | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 2 | 59 |
| Number removed to Hospital | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 45 | |