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 Southgate]
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Disease | Jan.— March | April— June | July— Sept. | Oct.— Dec. | Totals |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 7 | 7 | 5 | - | 19 |
Measles | — | 24 | 15 | 4 | 43 |
Pertussis | 11 | 23 | 78 | 38 | 150 |
Pneumonia | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 19 |
Erysipelas | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Poliomyelitis: | |||||
Paralytic | — | — | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Non-paralytic | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Food Poisoning | 3 | — | 6 | 6 | 15 |
Dysentery | 18 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 39 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
Malaria (contracted in Kenya) | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
Tuberculosis: | |||||
Pulmonary | 7 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 43 |
Non-Pulmonary | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Total | 60 | 84 | 131 | 74 | 349 |
Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Totals | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
Cases on Register at 1/1/56 | 319 | 275 | 35 | 29 | 658 |
Cases notified for first time in 1956 | 27 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 49 |
Cases Restored to Register | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 5 |
Other Cases added | 7 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 22 |
Cases Removed from Register | 39 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 70 |
Cases Remaining on Register at 31/12/56 | 315 | 276 | 40 | 33 | 664 |
*New Cases | Deaths | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1- 5 years | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
5-10 years | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
10-15 years | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
15-20 years | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
20-25 years | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
25-35 years | 9 | 6 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
35-45 years | 5 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
45-55 years | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
55-65 years | 6 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Over 65 years | 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
Unknown | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Total | 34 | 27 | 5 | 5 | 2 | — | — | — |
These figures include all cases previously notified and noted by the Tuberculosis
Officer and others as having removed into the district.
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