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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
Wembley 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE (OTHER THAN TUBERCULOSIS) NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR, 1937
| NOTIFIABLE DISEASE | Total cases Notified at all ages. | Cases Notified in the Whole District. At all Ages—Years | Total removed to Hospital. | % of cases removed to Hospital | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-20 | 20-35 | 35-45 | 45-65 | 65 & over | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | 420 | - | 7 | 14 | 23 | 17 | 264 | 52 | 8 | 26 | 8 | 1 | - | 329 | 78.3 |
| Diphtheria | 72 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 4 | - | 66 | 91.6 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 66.6 |
| ( Puerperal Fever | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | 5 | 83.3 |
| I Puerperal Pyrexia | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 1 | - | - | 13 | 76.4 |
| Pneumonia | 115 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 13 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 26 | 23 | 14 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 24 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 54.1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | Nil |
| Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 66.6 | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 100.0 |
| Dysentery | 8 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 25.0 |
* From 1st Octob r, 1937, notifiable as “ puerperal pyrexia.”