London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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| Disease | Age Groups | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disease | Under 1 year | 1-2 years | 3-4 years | 5-9 years | 10 - 14 years | 15 - 24 years | 25 years and over | Age not known | TOTAL | ||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | 3 | 2 | 23 | 16 | 43 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 142 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 21 | 35 | 28 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 144 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | |||||||||||||||||
| Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | 1 |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Measles | - | - | 10 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 49 |
| TOTAL | 6 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 44 | 46 | 85 | 59 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 338 |
| Disease | Age Groups | ||||||||||||||||
| Under 5 years | 5 - 14 years | 15-44 years | 45 - 64 years | 65 years and over | Age not known | TOTAL | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||
| Pneumonia | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 7 | - | 2 | 94 | ||||
| Dysentery | 21 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 108 | ||||
| Erysipelas | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | - | 3 | - | - | 17 | ||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | ||||
| Food Poisoning | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 20 | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 147 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 147 | ||||
| Cphthalmia Neonatorum | 19 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | ||||
| Malaria (Contracted abroad) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||||
| Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | ||||
| TOTAL | 50 | 36 | 27 | 28 | 25 | 188 | 28 | 26 | 6 | 11 | - | 2 | 427 | ||||