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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
Willesden 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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APPENDIX A—TABLE IV.-CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1930.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At Ages—Years. | South Kilburn. | Mid-Kilburn. | North Kilburn. | Brondesbury Park. | Kensal Rise. | Harlesden. | Stonebridge. | Roundwood. | Church End. | Willesden Green. | Cricklewood. | Total Cases removed to Willesden Municipal Hospital. | |||||||
| Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (ID | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | (21) |
| Small Pox | 9 | – | – | 1 | 3 | 4 | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 8* |
| Cholera (C) Plague (P) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 491 | 4 | 106 | 311 | 43 | 24 | 3 | – | 73 | 55 | 21 | 17 | 22 | 37 | 56 | 66 | 46 | 40 | 58 | 457 |
| Erysipelas | 81 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 28 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 20 |
| Scarlet Fever | 518 | 3 | 99 | 317 | 61 | 34 | 4 | – | 46 | 56 | 28 | 25 | 54 | 32 | 82 | 37 | 46 | 31 | 81 | 439 |
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric Fever | 10 | – | – | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) Puerperal Fever | 5 | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 34 | – | – | – | 13 | 21 | – | – | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | – | 1 | 7 | 3 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | 4 | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 38 | 38 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 258 | – | 1 | 9 | 73 | 116 | 52 | 7 | 17 | 32 | 17 | 11 | 20 | 20 | 37 | 23 | 20 | 26 | 35 | – |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 73 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 8 | 4 | – | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 7 | – |
| Whooping Cough | 229 | 38 | 90 | 97 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 11 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 45 | 63 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 6 |
| Pneumonia | 266 | 13 | 33 | 36 | 36 | 71 | 57 | 20 | 41 | 44 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 55 | 26 | 23 | 13 | 18 | 3 |
| Malaria | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| Dysentery | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 3 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Acute Polio Encephalitis | 5 | – | 4 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Anthrax | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Totals | 2,029 | 103 | 358 | 808 | 260 | 316 | 146 | 38 | 213 | 225 | 104 | 80 | 140 | 165 | 314 | 238 | 158 | 146 | 246 | 949 |
* Removed to Willesden Small Pox Hospital, Kingsbury, Middlesex.