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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 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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TABLE 1.
ANALYSIS OF CASES NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DI SEASES NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR ENDING 31st. DECEMBER 1942.
| Disease | All. | Number of cases notified- | cases in each Ward, | No. removed tO Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Un.l. | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & 0 | North. | South. | Cental. | Friern Hospital. | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 32 | - | 5 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 15 | 12 | 5 | - | 23 |
| Diphtheria | 7 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | 7 |
| Pneumonia | 27 | - | 7 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| Measles | 196 | 4 | 64 | 124 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 93 | 37 | 66 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 39 | 2 | 18 | 17 | - | 2 | - | - | 24 | 6 | 9 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 3 | — | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | - | — | - | 1 | 2 | - | — | 13 | - | - | - | 3 |
| Dysentery- | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Typhoid | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 6 | - |
| Menengitis | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | |
| Chicken-pox | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Laryngitis | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | — | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Pulm.Tuber&ulos$s | 26 | - | - | 2 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | - |
| Other Tuberculosis | 6 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| TOTALS | 352 | 6 | 98 | 177 | 20 | 34 | 13 | 157 | 94 | 19 | 40 | ||