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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE IX AGE DISTRIBUTION
| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | TOTAL | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | ||||||||||||||||
| M. | F | M, | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Under 1 year | - | - | 10 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 25 |
| 1-year | - | 3 | 4 | 11 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 4 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 35 |
| 2-years | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 19 | 12 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 59 |
| 3-years | 9 | 3 | 8 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 11 | 14 | - | - | 2 | 4 | - | 1 | 62 |
| 4-years | 11 | 12 | 8 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 22 | 12 | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | 80 |
| 5-9years | 28 | 36 | 22 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 95 | 60 | - | - | 6 | 10 | 1 | - | 296 |
| 10-14 years | 14 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | 9 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 39 |
| 15 -24 years | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 17 |
| 25 & over | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 6 | - | - | 2 | 6 | - | - | 20 |
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| TOTAL | 73 | 63 | 62 | 73 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 173 | 122 | - | 1 | 20 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 636 |
| AGE GROUP DISEASE | |||||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Paratyphoid Fever | TOTAL | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M, | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||
| Under 5 years | 4 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 7 | 6 | 1 | - | 26 | ||||
| 5-14 years | 4 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 16 | ||||
| 15-44 years | 6 | 8 | - | - | 4 | 3 | - | 113 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 138 | ||||
| 45 - 64 years | 16 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | ||||
| 65 & over | 15 | 16 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 37 | ||||
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| TOTAL | 45 | 34 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 10 | - | 113 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 246 | ||||