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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 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Friern Barnet]
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TABLE 1.
ANALYSIS OF CASES CONTFFEABLE INFECTIOUS DESEASES NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR ENDING 31st. DECEMBER. 1945.
| Disease. | Number -of ceses notified | Cases in each Ward. | No. removed to Hosp. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All. | • Un. 1. | 1-5 | 5-15. | 15-25. | 25-45 | 45-55. | 65 & 0. | North. | South | Central. | Friern Hosp. | ||
| Scarlet Fever. | 23 | - | 4 | 13 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 7 | 11 | 5 | - | 16 |
| Diphtheria. | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| Pneumonia. | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | _ | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | - |
| Measles. | 100 | 6 | 60 | 34 | - | - | ~ | - | 45 | 15 | 40 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 15 | _ | 11 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 6 | - | 1 |
| Dysentery. | 5 | - | - | - | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 |
| pulm. Tuberculosis. | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 15 | "" | - |
| Other Tuberculosis | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | — | - | 1 | 1 | _ | - | - | |
| Malaria. | 1 | - | - | _ | _ | 1 | - | - | _ | - | 1 | - | — |
| TOTALS. | 196 | 3 | 82 | 54 | 12 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 68 | 49 | 71 | 8 | 20 |