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Barnet 1953
[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- | l- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | 75- | Total. | |
| Scarlet Fever | – | – | 1 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 1 | _ | - | - | - | 31 |
| Whooping Cough | 9 | 14 | 22 | 23 | 18 | 92 | 5 | 1 | - | - | – | 1 | 185 |
| Measles | 15 | 49 | 86 | 88 | 92 | 379 | 17 | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | 732 |
| Acute Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | l | - | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 32 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | – | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | – | – | – | 4 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | – | – | - | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| (Non-Paralytic) | - | – | – | - | - | – | 1 | – | - | – | - | – | 1 |
| Dysentery | – | – | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | – | 25 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | _ | – | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 31 | _ | - | - | 50 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | – | - | - | – | 1 | |
| Paratyphoid B | – | – | - | - | – | 3 | - | - | - | – | – | - | 3 |
| Food Poisoning | – | – | – | – | - | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 |
| Erysipelas | – | – | - | – | - | – | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | – | 3 |
| Typhoid Fever | – | _ | – | - | - | – | - | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| TOTALS | 25 | 64 | 111 | 118 | 117 | 503 | 26 | 37 | 42 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 1072 |
Of the foregoing, the following cases normally resident outside the
district were notified from the Barnet General Hospital and the Victoria
Maternity Hospital:-
Dysentery 8; Measles 2; Acute Pneumonia 12; Meningococcal Infection 3;
Puerperal Pyrexia 46; Malaria 1, Paratyphoid B. 2; Erysipelas 1.
The cases of Tuberculosis removed for treatment are usually sent to
Clare Hall, South Mimms, or Grim's Dyke, Harrow Weald,Sanatoria; other
patients with an infectious disease being sent to Coppett's Food 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 1.23 (1.39); Whooping Cough 7.36 (3.58); Measles 29.11 (12.36);