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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
Hornchurch 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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TABLE SHOWING THE CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1937.
| NOTIFIABLE DISEASE | Total | Number of cases notified in age-groups. | Total cases notified in each Ward. | No. removed to Hospital | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| j Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 15 | 15 and under 25 | 25 and under 45 | 45 and under 65 | 65 and upwards | Cranham | Emerson Park | Harold Wood | North-West | Rainham | Thameside | Town | Upminster | |||
| Smallpox | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 279 | 1 | 57 | 184 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 35 | 49 | 28 | 14 | 78 | 48 | 199 |
| Diphtheria | 52 | 0 | 15 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 51 |
| Enteric Fever (with Paratyphoid) | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia.. | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Polio-myelitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 82 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 46 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 30 |
| Erysipelas | 25 | 1 | 1 | I | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 10 | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Dysentery | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||