Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 2. | 2 and under 3. | 3 and under 4. | 4 and under 5. | 5 and under 10. | 10 and under is. | 15 and under 20. | 20 and under 35. | 35 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and over. | ||||||||||||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) | (19) | (20) | (21) | (22) | (23) | (24) | (25) | (26) |
Smallpox | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 392 | 12 | 15 | 30 | 26 | 34 | 126 | 58 | 23 | 51 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 55 | 39 | 22 | 10 | 22 | 24 | 69 | 20 | 32 | 40 | 59 | 368 |
Erysipelas | 100 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 37 |
Scarlet fever | 694 | 5 | 24 | 37 | 55 | 50 | 304 | 128 | 36 | 43 | 8 | 4 | - | 64 | 85 | 55 | 23 | 38 | 35 | 40 | 78 | 85 | 59 | 132 | 623 |
Typhus fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Enteric fever | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
Relapsing fever (R) Continued fever (C) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal fever | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 4 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 8 | 4 |
Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 |
Poliomyelitis | 14 | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 20 | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Pulmonary tuberculosis | 247 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 9 | 21 | 98 | 43 | 61 | 10 | 18 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 21 | 23 | 27 | 18 | 13 | 26 | 53 | - |
Other forms of tuberculosis | 47 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | - | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | - |
Whooping cough | 524 | 54 | 68 | 64 | 71 | 65 | 190 | 7 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 55 | 36 | 24 | 13 | 22 | 55 | 96 | 73 | 34 | 73 | 43 | 21 |
Pneumonia | 335 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 20 | 17 | 53 | 43 | 82 | 37 | 55 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 64 | 39 | 27 | 19 | 36 | 3 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Encephalitis lethargica | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Acute polio encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Totals | 2,445 | 101 | 132 | 141 | 164 | 160 | 682 | 238 | 115 | 327 | 139 | 183 | 63 | 282 | 225 | 156 | 67 | 131 | 187 | 336 | 248 | 207 | 239 | 367 | 1,077 |
* Removed to London County Council Smallpox Hospital. |