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Shoreditch 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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13.
CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING 1955 (confirmed diagnosis).
| NOTIFIABLE DISEASE | Total number of confirmed cases | AGES | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1-5 years | 5-15 years | 15 - 25 years | 25 - 45 years | 45 - 65 years | 65 years + | Deaths | ||
| Scarlet fever | 35 | 1 | 14 | 20 | - | - | — | - | — |
| Diphtheria | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute primary and influenzal pneumonia | 13 | - | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 8 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| Meningococcal infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric (paratyphoid) | 17 | - | - | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitisparalytic | 7 | - | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| non-paralytic | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 252 | 7 | 80 | 110 | 8 | 40 | 5 | 2 | - |
| Measles | 468 | 11 | 271 | 184 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping cough | 151 | 14 | 78 | 58 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Scabies | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Total | 970 | 35 | 458 | 394 | 17 | 52 | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| Tuberculosis-pulmonary | 36 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 14 |
| - non-pulmonary | 6 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 6 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
The following diseases are notifiable in this Borough:
Disease
Authority for notification
Acute encephalitis
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.2259 made
by Minister of Health. 1949 (1.1,50)
Acute primary or
influenzal pneumonia
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.299 made
by Minister of Health, 1953 (1.4.53)
Acute poliomyelitis
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg,No.2259 made
by Minister of Health, 1949 (1,1,50)
Anthrax
Cholera
Continued fever
Diphtheria
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 305)
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 304)
Do.
Do.
Dysentery
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.299 made
by Minister of Health, 1953 (1,4,53).