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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
Enfield 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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smallpox vaccination
1,182 persons were vaccinated against smallpox.
poliomyelitis and acute encephalitis.
No cases of Poliomyelitis or Acute Encephalitis occurred
during the year.
food poisoning
Of the 5 cases of food poisoning which were notified during
the year, all were single cases, due to Salmonella Organisms.
sonne dysentery
The incidence of mild dysentery due to Shigella Sonnei showed
an increase on last year's figure, with 38 cases as against 10 for the
previous year, but this is an infection which is likely to vary considerably
in incidence, especially as its spread is so easily encouraged
by careless personal hygiene.
tuberculosis.
The following table gives particulars of the ages of the new
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory. | Other Forms | Respiratory. | Other Forms | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 to 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 to 10 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 10 to 15 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15 to 20 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 20 to 25 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 25 to 35 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 35 to 45 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 45 to 55 | 6 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 55 to 65 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 65 and upwards | 4 | 3 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Totals | 22 | 11 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | 1 | — |