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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
Wood Green 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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TABLE III
Infectious Diseases Notified during the year 1956
| Notifiable Disease | Cases Notified in Whole Borough | Total Cases Notified in each Ward | Total Cases removed to Hospital or Sanatorium | Total Deaths | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages - Years | |||||||||||||||||
| All Ages | Under 1 year | 1 to 5 years | 5 to 10 years | 10 to 15 years | 15 to 20 years | 20 to 25 years | 25 to 35 years | 35 to 45 years | 45 to 55 years | 55 to 65 years | 65 and upwards | ||||||
| Alexandra -Bowes | Town Hall | Noel Park | |||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Pever | 17 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Cerebro-Spinal Pever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Para-typhoid Pever | -1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -. | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Pneumonia | 39 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 29 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | - |
| Polio-Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Pulrn, Tuberculosis | 30 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | - | 3 | 12 | 4 | 14 | - | 1 |
| Non-Pulm,. Tuberculosis | 7 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chickenpox | 5 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | 5 | - |
| Mearles | 27 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 10 | 6 | 11 | 1 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 37 | 5 | 17 | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 10 | 4 | 23 | 3 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 76 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 11 | - | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 23 | 35 | 9 | - |
| Pood Poisoning | 18 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 4 | - |
| Totals | 265 | 12 | 54 | 70 | 17 | 2 | 10 | 28 | 25 | 13 | 9 | 25 | 86 | 54 | 125 | 38 | 31 |