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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 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the year 1945.
| Gases notified At ages - years. | Cages admitted to Isolation Hospitals. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards. | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 39 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 35 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Pneumonia | 21 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 6 | 9 | - | |
| Erysipelas | 2 | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Dysentery (Sonne) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Measles | 108 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 18 | 29 | 7 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | |
| Whooping Cough | 7 2 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 2 | - | - | - | — | - | 4 |
| Totals | 244 | 13 | 29 | 33 | 25 | 59 | 65 | 15 | - | 10 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 42 |
Deaths of notified cases - Pneumonia:- 3, aged 82, 79 and 68 years respectively.
Whooping Cough:- 1, aged 16 months.
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