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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
Penge 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the year 1941.
| Cases notified. At ages -.Years. | Cases admit ted to Isolation Hospitals. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages „ | Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 6 5 and upwards | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 9 | ||
| Diphtheria | 14 | - | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | — | _ | — | — | - | 14 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | ||
| Pneunonia | 9 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | – | ||
| Erysipelas | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | _ | - | 2 | ||
| Measles | 237 | 12 | 25 | 20 | 27 | 23 | 124 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | — | 1 |
| Yihooping Cough | 102 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 34 | 1 | -- | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | – | |||
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - - | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ~ | - | - | - | – | ||
| Totals | 335 | 26 | 42 | 38 | 45 | 39 | 170 | 7 | 4 | 6 | "- | 4 | 30 | |
Deaths of notified cases - Pneumonia, 2 aged 2-k years and 73 years respectively.
whooping Cough, 3 aged years, 2 years and 14 months respectively.
Diphtheria, 1 aged 3 years.