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Barnet 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]

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The foregoing figures shew a welcome overall reduction as compared
with last year, particularly in respect of measles and whooping cough.

Table: AGE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

AGE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

DISEASENUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED
YEARS OF AGE
0-l-2-3-4-5-10-15-25-45-65-75-Total.
Scarlet Fever--221821~---16
Whooping Cough7476813-1l---47
Measlesl513111264-l----107
Acute Pneumonia-l---1-2-11-6
Meningococcal Infection1-----------1
Acute Poliomyelitis (Non-Paralytic)------1l----2
Dysentery2--1l121l---9
Puerperal Pyrexia------1922---41
Paratyphoid Fever---------1--1
Enteric Fever-------1----1
Food Poisoning---l-4--31--9
Erysipelas---------2--4
TOTALS111022212291527295l-244

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Of the foregoing, the following canes normally resident outside the
district were notified from the Barnet General H ospital and the Victoria
Maternity Hospital:-
Whooping Cough 1; Acute Pneumonia 3; Meningococcal Infection 1; Acute
Poliomyelitis (Non-Paralytic) 1; Dysentery 6; Puerperal Pyrexia 36;
Enteric Fever lj Food Poisoning 65 Erysipelas 1.
The cases of Tuberculosis removed for treatment are usually sent to
Clare Hall Sanatorium, South Mimms, other patients with an infectious
disease being sent to Coppett1s Wood Hospital, Muswell Hill, N.10.
The Case Rates, of certain diseases, excluding those cases not
normally resident in the district, per 1,000 of the population are as follows;-