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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
Friern Barnet 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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TABLE 1.
ANALYSIS CASES OF NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR ENDING
31st. DECEMBER 1941
| Disease. | Number of cases notified | Cases in each Ward. | No. removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | . Unit | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & 0 | North. | South | Central | Friern Hospital | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 33 | - | 3 | 36 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 18 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 25 |
| Diphtheria | 49 | - | 12 | 17 | 12 | 8 | - | - | 10 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 48 |
| Pneumonia | 27 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 8 | - |
| Measles | 165 | 10 | 59 | 90 | 6 | - | - | - | 106 | 31 | 28 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 154 | 13 | 78 | 59 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 64 | 32 | 58 | - | 3 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 4 | - |
| Dysentery | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Cerebro-spinal-fever | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Menenigitis | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Polio-encephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Typhoid | 14 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 12 | 2 |
| Polio-myelitis | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Chicken-pox | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Pulm. Tuberculosis | 29 | - | - | 1 | 6 | 17 | 5 | - | 13 | 4 | 9 | 3 | - |
| Other Tuberculosis | 6 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | - |
| TOTALS | 495 | 26 | 156 | 200 | 37 | 48 | 23 | 5 | 219 | 109 | 131 | 36 | 85 |