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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 X WARD DISTRIBUTION NUMBER OF CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED IN EACH WARD OF THE BOROUGH
| Disease | Ward. | TOTAL | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hill | Burnt Oak | West Hendon | Central | Park | Golders Green | Garden Suburb | Childs Hill | Edgware | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 40 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 23 | 136 |
| Whooping Cough | 9 | 33 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 135 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | ||||||||||
| Paralytic | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Non-Paralytic | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 5 |
| Measles | 42 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 49 | 102 | 38 | 11 | 295 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 12 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 79 |
| Dysentery | 22 | 10 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 54 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| Food Poisoning | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 24 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 6 | 80 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | - | 5 | 2 | 113 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 13 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 6 |
| TOTAL | 141 | 163 | 74 | 46 | 66 | 89 | 125 | 105 | 73 | 882 |