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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE VIII
AGE DISTRIBUTION
| AGE GROUP | DISEASE | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | ||||||||||||
| Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | ||||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 21 | 20 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| 1 - year | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 102 | 87 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |||
| 2 - years | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 155 | 137 | 6 | 1 | - | - | |||
| 3 - years | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 165 | 129 | 1 | 3 | - | - | |||
| 4 - years | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 165 | 152 | - | 1 | - | - | |||
| 5-9 years | 19 | 11 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 539 | 470 | 3 | 4 | - | - | |||
| 10-14 years | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 22 | 23 | - | 3 | - | - | |||
| 15-24 years | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 9 | 1 | 5 | - | - | |||
| 25 & over | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | - | - | |||
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| TOTAL | 36 | 23 | 9 | 16 | - | - | - | 1 | 1182 | 1033 | 15 | 22 | - | - | |||
| AGE GROUP | Pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Typhoid Fever | Paratyphoid Fever | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||||||
| Under 5 years | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | - | • | - | - | - | ||||||
| 5-15 years | 1 | 4 | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| 15-44 years | 2 | 1 | - | - | 7 | 3 | 92 | 1 | - | - | - | ||||||
| 45-64 years | 9 | 9 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | ||||||
| 65 & over | 8 | 11 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Age unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| TOTAL | 23 | 25 | 2 | - | 17 | 14 | 92 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||||||