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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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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 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 15 | 28 | 23 | 11 | 17 | 17 | 158 |
| Whooping Cough | 20 | 30 | 27 | 15 | 29 | 19 | 15 | 22 | 30 | 207 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | ||||||||||
| Paralytic | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 24 |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Measles | 244 | 166 | 67 | 208 | 287 | 248 | 199 | 276 | 469 | 2164 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 16 | 27 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 6 | - | 22 | 13 | 121 |
| Dysentery | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 25 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 3 | - | 12 |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | 9 | 2 | 27 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | 73 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 116 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 12 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| TOTAL | 318 | 340 | 124 | 270 | 374 | 318 | 232 | 359 | 549 | 2884 |