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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 VI. WARD DISTRIBUTION.
Number of cases of Infectious Disease notified in each Ward of the Borough.
| Disease. | Ward. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hill. | Burnt Oak. | West Hendon | Central. | Park. | Golders Green. | Garden Suburb. | Childs Hill. | Edgware. | Total. | |
| Scarlet Fever | 32 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 147 |
| Whooping Cough | 95 | 69 | 152 | 45 | 39 | 40 | 48 | 49 | 67 | 604 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Measles | 358 | 173 | 241 | 66 | 214 | 116 | 109 | 95 | 246 | 1618 |
| Pneumonia | 45 | 30 | 27 | 30 | 33 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 213 |
| Dysentery | 9 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 74 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | 76 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 106 |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | – | – | 1 | – | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | – | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 4 |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 21 |
| Meningococcal Infections | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| Food Poisoning | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | — | 5 | 2 | 22 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| TOTAL | 550 | 395 | 453 | 172 | 321 | 204 | 185 | 201 | 361 | 2842 |