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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
Hendon 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE V. ACE DISTRIBUTION.
The following table shows the age distribution of cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year.
| Disease. | Age Groups. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year. | 1—2 | 3—4 | 5—9. | 10—14. | 15—25. | 25 & over | Age not known. | TOTALS. | |||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M | . F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Scarlet Fever | – | – | 2 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 45 | 39 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 147 |
| Whooping Cough | 19 | 19 | 61 | 63 | 76 | 99 | 96 | 137 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 1 | – | 604 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis : Paralytic | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Non-Paralytic | – | – | - | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 3 |
| Measles | 21 | 16 | 170 | 128 | 278 | 221 | 357 | 349 | 12 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1618 |
| TOTALS | 40 | 35 | 233 | 195 | 368 | 336 | 502 | 527 | 24 | 43 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 2375 |
| Disease. | Age Groups. | ||||||||||||||||
| Under 5 years. | 5—14. | 15—44. | 45—64. | 65 & over | Age not known. | TOTALS. | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||
| Pneumonia | 13 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 39 | 34 | 34 | 20 | 20 | – | 1 | 213 | ||||
| Dysentery | 17 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 5 | — | 2 | — | — | 74 | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | 106 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 106 | ||||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 4 | ||||
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | — | — | 21 | ||||
| Meningococcal Infections | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 5 | ||||
| Food Poisoning | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | 22 | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 13 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 21 | ||||
| TOTALS | 46 | 26 | 18 | 21 | 39 | 161 | 44 | 49 | 25 | 37 | — | 1 | 467 | ||||