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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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TABLE
Infectious Diseases Notified during the year 1957
| Notifiable Disease | Cases Notified in Whole Borough | Total Cases Notified in each Ward | Total Cases removed to Hospital or Sanatorium | Total Deaths | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ail Ages | At Ages - Years | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 Fever | 22 | - | 6 | 14 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 4 | 8 | 9 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Para-typhoid Fever . | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 39 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 18 | 24 | 26 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 6 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | 6 | - | |
| Polio-Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | - | - | - | - | _ | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Pulm Tuberculosis , | 26 | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | - | 9 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 6 |
| Non-Pulm. Tuberculosis | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chickenpox | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Measles | 876 | 16 | 345 | 493 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 218 | 277 | 381 | 17 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 95 | 10 | 39 | 43 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 33 | 34 | 28 | 6 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 32 | - | 1 | 4 | 14 | 5 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 23 | 5 | 4 | 21 | - |
| Food Pois ning | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Totals | 1 111 | 27 | 396 | 559 | 34 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 316 | 335 | 460 | 116 | 33 |