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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
Edmonton 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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HEALTH EDUCATION
As part of the measures against Influenza, a small anti-sneeze campaign was carried out
during October, Posters were exhibited on poster boards urging the public to keep their sneezes
to themselves and 5,000 bookmarks bearing the same message were distributed through the Public.
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Pour cases were notified in 1956; 16 in 1955 and 1 in 1954. The notification rate for
1956-57 was, therefore, lower than for 1954-55, and it seems highly probable that the incidence
for 1958-59 will be lower still. Immunization against the disease is undoubtedly playing a
great part in the falling incidence.
Notifications of the main Infectious Diseases are presented in tabular form below:-
| Disease | Total Number of Cases | Number Removed to Hospital | Deaths | to 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and over |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 132 | 86 | - | - | 3 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 75 | 16 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 1,282 | 14 | - | 25 | 108 | 172 | 131 | 175 | 635 | 26 | 2 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 97 | 6 | - | 12 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 38 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 57 | 13 | 52 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 19 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 99 | 98 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | 70 | 12 | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | 11 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Pood Poisoning | 13 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Poliomyelitis | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 38 | 35 | - | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 44 | 5 | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 5 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| paratyphoid 'B' | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
The Area Medical Officer for Area No, 1 Middlesex (Edmonton and Enfield) has kindly given me the following details of immunizations against Diphtheria and Whooping Cough during 1957:
| Age (1) | Children who completed a full course of primary immunization | Children given a reinforcing injection | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria only (2) | Combined Diphtheria and Whooping Cough (3) | Whooping Cough only (4) | Diphtheria only (5) | Combined Diphtheria and Whooping Cough (6) | Whooping Cough only (7) | |
| Under 1 | 85 | 481 | 29 | - | - | - |
| 1 | 28 | 151 | 10 | - | - | - |
| 2-4 | 32 | 63 | 1 | 105 | 80 | - |
| 5-14 | 99 | 15 | 2 | 982 | 88 | - |
| 15 and over | - | - | - | 3 | - | - |
| Total: | 244 | 710 | 42 | 1 090 | 168 | - |