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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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| AGE GROUP | DISEASE | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | |||||||||||
| Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | |||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| Under 1 year | - | - | 6 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 12 | 22 | 2 | 1 | - | - | ||
| 1 - year | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 77 | 57 | 1 | - | - | 1 | ||
| 2 - years | 7 | 3 | 10 | 10 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 115 | 98 | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||
| 3 - years | 5 | 4 | 7 | 13 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 129 | 115 | 1 | - | - | - | ||
| 4 - years | 12 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 163 | 142 | 2 | - | - | - | ||
| 5-9 years | 42 | 50 | 42 | 56 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 598 | 563 | 3 | 2 | - | - | ||
| 10 -14 years | 17 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 23 | 20 | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||
| 15 -24 years | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | ||
| 25 & over | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | 10 | 2 | 6 | - | - | ||
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | - | ||
| TOTAL | 89 | 69 | 96 | 111 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1122 | 1042 | 14 | 11 | - | 1 | ||
| Pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Paratyphoid Fever | ||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||||||
| Under 5 years | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 5-14 years | 7 | 5 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | ||||||
| 15-44 years | 21 | 11 | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | - | 116 | - | 4 | ||||||
| 45 - 64 years | 19 | 18 | 3 | 4 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 65 & over | 11 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Age unknown | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| TOTAL | 60 | 61 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 19 | - | 116 | - | 5 | ||||||