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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 1952
[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 1 year | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25 and over | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 19 | 58 | 179 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 290 | |||
| Whooping Cough | 38 | 75 | 73 | 109 | 5 | — | 2 | 302 | |||
| Acute Poliomyelitis:— | |||||||||||
| Paralytic | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||
| Non-paralytic | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 3 | |||
| Measles | 59 | 348 | 508 | 911 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1,847 | |||
| Diphtheria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Under 5 years | 5-14 | 15-44 | 45-64 | 65 and over | Total | ||||||
| Pneumonia:— | |||||||||||
| Acute Primary | 3 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 35 | |||||
| Acute Influenzal | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| Dysentery | 3 | — | — | — | — | 3 | |||||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Encephalitis, Acute:— | |||||||||||
| Infective | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Post-Infectious | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Enteric Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Erysipelas | — | 1 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 19 | |||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 3 | — | — | — | — | 3 | |||||
| Food Poisoning | 5 | 4 | 15 | 1 | — | 25 | |||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | 18 | — | — | 18 | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | — | — | — | — | 9 | |||||
| Pemphigus | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| Malaria (Foreign Origin) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||