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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Barnet 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet UDC]

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Table: AGE INCIDENCE OP INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

AGE INCIDENCE OP INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

DISEASENUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED
YEARS OF AGE
0-1-2-3-4-5-10-15-25-45-65-75-Total
Scarlet Fever--11171-1---12
Whooping Cough52172121211--34
Measles316334355186522---345
Acute Pneumonia--12-2-111--8
Meningococcal Infection1-----------1
Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic)-------1----1
(Non-Paralytic)----1---1---2
Dysentery-----11-----2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1-----------1
Puerperal Pyrexia-------2233---55
Food Poisoning-----3-112--7
Erysipelas---------21-3
Scabies-------1----1
TOTALS10183653592118304061-472

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Of the foregoing, the following cases normally resident outside the
district were notified from the Barnet General Hospital and the Victoria
Maternity Hospitals -
Whooping Cough 1; Measles 8; Acute Pneumonia 3 J Acute Poliomyelitis
(Non-Paralytic) 1; Dysentery 1; Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1; Puerperal
Pyrexia 44; Pood Poisoning 5; Erysipelas 1.
This was a "measles year" and after allowing for this and deducting
the out-district cases brought to the local hospitals, the general level
of incidence of notifiable diseases remains fairly low.
The cases of Tuberculosis removed for treatment are usually sent to
Clare Hall Sanatorium, South Mimas, other patients with an infectious
disease being sent to Coppett.'s Wood Hospital, Muswell Hill, N.10.