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Willesden 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 9.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR.
| Disease. | Total Cases Notified. (1) | Cases admitted to | Total Deaths. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willesden Municipal Hospital. (2) | Other Hospitals. | |||
| Diphtheria | 382 | 370 | 6 | 21 |
| Scarlet Fever | 556 | 484 | 8 | 2 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 10 | 7 | 2 | ยกรถ |
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pvrexia | 33 | 3 | 28 | - |
| Pneumonia | 352 | 8 | -* | 168 |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - |
| Plague | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 88 | 41 | 25 | 3 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| Poliomyelitis | 5 | 1 | 3 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 19 | 3 | 5 | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | 20 | 2 | 18 | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | _ | - |
| Acute Polio-Encephalitis | - | - | - | - |
| Anthrax | - | - | - | |
| Tuberculosis:- | 240 | - | - | 118 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 53 | - | -* | 15 |
| Whooping Cough | 743 | 91 | -* | 12 |
For analysis of the age groups see Appendix " A " Table IV. * No complete record.
Table No . 10.
TUBERCULOSIS.
New Cases and Mortality during 1936.
This table includes primary notifications received from Medical Practitioners, cases not notified but included in the death returns and cases transferred from other areas.
| New Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age-Periods. | Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory. | Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory. | ||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | 16 | 29 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | 34 | 39 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| 35 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 65 and upwards | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 127 | 113 | 32 | 21 | 71 | 47 | 8 | 7 |
The ratio of non-notified tuberculosis deaths to total tuberculosis deaths was 1 : 8.