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Barnet 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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AGE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
| DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEARS OF AGE | |||||||||||||
| 0- | 1- | r 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25" | 45- | 65- | ,75- | Total | |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 38 | |
| Whooping Cough | 10 | 15 | 34 | 32 | 77 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 193 | |
| Measles | 8 | 31 | 41 | 64 | 47 | 218 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 417 |
| Acute Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| Acute Paralytic Poliomyelitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Dysentery | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 8 | - | - | - | 19 |
| Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| TOTALS | 18 | 48 | 66 | 100 | 82 | 319 | 14 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 694 |
Of the foregoing, the following cases normally resident outside the
district were notified from the Barnet General Hospital:Scarlet
Fever 2; Measles 2; Acute Paralytic Poliomyelitis 2;
Dysentery 1; Puerperal Pyrexia 17; Typhoid 1; Food Poisoning 1;
Erysipelas 2.
The cases of Tuberculosis removed for treatment are usually sent to
Clare Hall or Ware Park Sanatoria; other patients with an infectious
disease being sent to Coppett's Wood Hospital, Muswell Hill, N.10.
The Case Rates, of certain diseases, per 1,000 of the population for
the district are as follows, with the rates for England and Wales shewn
in parenthesis:-
Scarlet Fever 1.52 (1.50); Whooping Cough 7.74 (3.60); Measles 16.73
(8.39); Acute Pneumonia 0.60 (0.70); Acute Paralytic Poliomyelitis 0.16
(0.13); Puerperal Pyrexia (per 1,000 live and still births) 5.62 (5.81);
Food Poisoning 0.04 (0.17); Erysipelas 0.16 (0.17).