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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE X, WARD DISTRIBUTION NUMBER OP CASES OP INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED IN EACH WARD OF THE BOROUGH
| Disease | Ward | TOTAL | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hi11 | Burnt Oak | West Hendon | Central | Park | Golders Green | Garden Suburb | Childs Hill | Edgware | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 16 | 26 | 37 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 151 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | 32 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | ||||||||||
| Paralytic | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 5 |
| Non Paralytic | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5 |
| Measles | 245 | 195 | 202 | 67 | 57 | 107 | 91 | 80 | 239 | 1,283 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 28 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 27 | 7 | 121 |
| Dysentery | 10 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 95 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 16 | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 36 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | 87 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 126 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| TOTAL | 311 | 369 | 276 | 94 | 106 | 165 | 110 | 156 | 275 | 1,862 |