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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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NUMBER OF CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED IN EACH WARD OF THE BOROUGH.
| Disease | Ward. | TOTAL | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hill | Burnt Oak | West Hendon | Central | Pa rk | Golders Green | Garden Suburb | Childs Hill | Edgware | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 37 | 12 | 23 | 20 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 142 |
| Whooping Cough | 18 | 16 | 31 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 20 | 144 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Non-Paralytic | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Measles | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | o o | 8 | 6 | 6 | 49 |
| Pneumonia | 11 | 15 | 9 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 94 |
| Dysentery | 2 | 38 | 23 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 29 | 2 | - | 108 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 17 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 20 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 10 | 94 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 147 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 22 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 30 |
| Malaria (Contracted Abroad) | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| TOTAL | 89 | 202 | 103 | 71 | 67 | 50 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 765 |