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Barnet 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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AGE INCIDENCE OP INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
| DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEARS OF AGE | |||||||||||||
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | 75- | Total | |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 44 |
| Measles | 11 | 37 | 55 | 55 | 264 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 478 | |
| Acute Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 45 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 10 |
| (Non-Paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis (infective) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 6 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 16 | - | - | - | 30 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 5 | 13 | 2 | - | 25 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 5 |
| TOTALS | 20 | 42 | 45 | 59 | 61 | 295 | 25 | 26 | 33 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 654 |
Of the foregoing, the following cases normally resident outside the
district were notified from the Barnet General Hospital and the Victoria
Maternity Hospital:-
Whooping Cough 5; Measles 9; Acute Pneumonia 35; Meningococcal Infection 2;
Infective Encephalitis 1; Dysentery 3; Puerperal Pyrexia 30; Pood
Poisoning 18.
Of the twenty-five cases of food poisoning only three cases were of
persons not normally resident in this district and admitted to the hospital
for the treatment of this condition.
Nineteen cases occurred in one spontaneous outbreak in the local
hospital following a particular meal. The causative organism was isolated
in the raw food prior to cooking. It is a sporing organism now known to