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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 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 | 29 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 113 |
| Whooping Cough | 5 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 12 | 42 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Non-aralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 121 | 85 | 55 | 46 | 107 | 42 | 18 | 73 | 56 | 603 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 11 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 74 |
| Dysentery | 62 | 31 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 136 | 3 | 48 | 17 | 330 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | 5 | 11 |
| Food Poisoning | 8 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 36 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 9 | 76 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | - | 3 | 3 | 112 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TOTAL | 246 | 234 | 76 | 83 | 1ST | 216 | 49 | 147 | 123 | 1,331 |