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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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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 | Chi Ids Hill | Edgware | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 19 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 114 |
| Whooping Cough | 29 | 13 | 4 | - | 10 | 30 | 18 | 18 | 31 | 153 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | ||||||||||
| Non-Paraltyic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 30 | 18 | 2 | 78 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 23 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 52 |
| Dysentery | 20 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 44 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 5 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 14 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | 74 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 105 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TOTAL | 102 | 136 | 37 | 18 | 45 | 61 | 54 | 57 | 62 | 572 |