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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE IX, AGE DISTRIBUTION
| AGE GROUP | DISEASE | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Dysentery | Meningocoocal Infection | ||||||||||
| Paralytic | Non-paralytic | ||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| Under 1 year | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | |
| 1— year | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 23 | 29 | 10 | 7 | - | - | ||
| 2— years | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 46 | 35 | 20 | 16 | - | - | |
| 3— years | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | 37 | 49 | 10 | 8 | - | - | ||
| 4— years | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 42 | 52 | 17 | 11 | - | - | ||
| 5— 9 years | 32 | 30 | 10 | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | 129 | 129 | 69 | 59 | - | - | |
| 10—14 years | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 6 | 18 | 28 | - | - | |
| 15—24 years | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| 25 & over | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 19 | 21 | 1 | - | |
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 3 | - | - | |
| TOTAL | 46 | 67 | 24 | 18 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 290 | 313 | 173 | 157 | 2 | - | |
| Pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Paratyphoid Fever | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||
| Under 5 years | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| 5—14 years | 2 | 3 | - | - | 5 | 4 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| 15—44 years | 7 | 10 | 1 | - | 6 | 5 | - | 112 | - | - | |||||
| 45—64 years | 13 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| 65 & over | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | ° | - | |||||
| Age unknown | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| TOTAL | 34 | 40 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 19 | - | 112 | - | - | |||||