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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE IX. WARD DISTRIBUTION.
Number of cases of Infectious Disease notified in each Ward of the Borough.
| Disease. | Mill Hill. | Burnt Oak. | West Hendon | Central. | Ward. Park. | Golders Green. | Garden Suburb. | Childs Hill. | Edgware. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 49 | 19 | 43 | 21 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 32 | 216 |
| Whooping Cough | 72 | 108 | 82 | 38 | 79 | 44 | 16 | 36 | 33 | 508 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis:— Paralytic | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 11 |
| Non-Paralytic | 4 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Measles | 154 | 83 | 53 | 169 | 108 | 52 | 91 | 50 | 107 | 867 |
| Pneumonia | 29 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 114 |
| Dysentery | 6 | — | 2 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 28 |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 23 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | 9 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 9 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 8 | 97 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 138 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | 24 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 30 |
| TOTAL | 332 | 352 | 199 | 264 | 232 | 140 | 125 | 127 | 194 | 1965 |