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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
Dagenham 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (Other than Tuberculosis).
| Under i year | 1-3 | 3-5 | 5-IO | 10-15 | 15-25 | 25 and over | No age | Non-Civilian | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 9 | 32 | 78 | 25 | 11 | 5 | _ | 1 | 162 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 64 | 102 | 95 | 100 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | 370 | ||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 9 | ||||||
| Acute Polioencephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Measles | 65 | 215 | 266 | 353 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 3 | — | 936 | ||||||
| Diphtheria | — | — | 1 | 7 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 9 | ||||||
| 0-5 | 5-15 | 15-45 | 45-65 . 65 and over | No age | Non-Civilian | Total | ||||||||||
| Pneumonia:— | ||||||||||||||||
| Acute Primary | 52 | 18 | 38 | 26 8 | — | 1 | 143 | |||||||||
| Influenzal | — | — | 4 | 2 4 | — | — | 10 | |||||||||
| Dysentery | 1 | — | I | — — | — | — | 2 | |||||||||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Enteric Fever | — | — | — | 1 — | — | — | 1 | |||||||||
| Para-typhoid | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | — | 8 | 10 — | — | — | 20 | |||||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | — | 3 | 1 — | — | — | 6 | |||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | 16 | |||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | 10 | |||||||||
| Pemphigus | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | |||||||||
| Food Poisoning | 1 | — | 2 | — 1 | — | — | 4 | |||||||||
| Notified. | Admitted to Isolation Hospital, Rush Green. | Admitted to other Isolation Hospitals. | Admitted to other Hospitals. | Deaths Registered. | ||||||||||||
| Cerebo-Spinal Meningitis | 6 | 6 | — | _ | 1 | |||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 9 | 9 | — | — | 1 | |||||||||||
| Dysentery | 2 | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Enteric | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 20 | 7 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Food Poisoning | 4 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Measles | 936 | 7 | — | — | 2 | |||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | 2 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Pemphigus | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 16 | 7 | — | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Pneumonia:— Acute Influenzal | 10 | 3 | _ | _ | 42 | |||||||||||
| Acute Primary | 143 | 49 | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Polioencephalitis Acute | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Poliomyelitis Acute | 9 | 9 | — | — | 1 | |||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 162 | 29 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| Smallpox.. | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 370 | 19 | — | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||