Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ruislip]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The following table shows the Incidence of infectious diseases during 1963 and gives comparisons
with the previous year.
PREVALENCE OP AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE Classified List of Infectious Diseases Notified
AGES OF CASES NOTIFIED | Total 1963 | Total 1962 | Total Cases Admitted to Hospital | DEATHS | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under one year | 1 to 2 | 3 to 4 | 5 to 9 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 24 | 25 and over | Age unknown | |||||||
1963 | 1962 | 1963 | 1962 | |||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 2 | - | 29 | 55 | - | 1 | - | - |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Paratyphoid 'B' Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Dysentery | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 9 | 33 | 2 | 5 | - | - |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 7 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - |
Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 24 | - | 26 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 56 | 45 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) ) | SEE | TABLE | ||||||||||||
Tuberculosis (Non-Pulmonary) ) | ||||||||||||||
Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Poliomyelitis (Non-Paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
- do - (Post Infectious) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Measles | 39 | 290 | 362 | 560 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1, 291 | 46 | 3 | - | 1 | - |
Whooping Cough | 7 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 1 | - | - | - | 30 | 8 | 2 | - | - | - |
Food Poisoning | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 4 | - | - | - |