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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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TABLE VIII
Age distribution
TABLE VIII
AGE DISTRIBUTION
| AGE GROUP | DISEASE | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Measles | Dysentery | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 1 - year | - | - | - | 1 | 11 | 7 | - | - |
| 2 - years | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| 3 - years | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | - | - |
| 4 - years | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | 16 | 12 | - | - |
| 5-9 years | 13 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 30 | 2 | 3 |
| 10-14 years | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | - |
| 15-24 years | 3 | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| 25 & over | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Total | 28 | 25 | 3 | 11 | 66 | 72 | 6 | 7 |
TABLE VIII
AGE DISTRIBUTION
| AGE GROUP | Pneumonia | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Typhoid Fever | Paratyphoid Fever | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | F. | M. | F. | U. | F. | |
| Under 5 years | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5-15 years | 1 | 2 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15-44 years | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 8 | 3 | 39 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| 45-64 years | 7 | 9 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 65 & over | 11 | 12 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| TOTAL | 22 | 27 | - | 4 | 17 | 12 | 39 | - | 1 | 1 | - |