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 Shoreditch]
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CASES OP INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING 1958 (confirmed diagnoses).
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. | ||
Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Dysentery | 121 | 8 | 46 | 49 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 2 | – |
Acute encephalitis- infective | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
post-infectious | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
Enteric (paratyphoid) | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
Erysipelas | 6 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | – |
Measles | 132 | 3 | 67 | 61 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Meningococcal infection | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Pneumonia | 19 | – | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | – |
Acute Poliomyelitis-- paralytic | 7 | – | 5 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
- non-paralytic | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
Puerperal pyrexia | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – |
Scabies | – | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | |
Scarlet fever | 40 | – | 16 | 23 | – | – | 1 | – | – |
Whooping cough | 17 | 2 | 10 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – |
Tuberculosis- - pulmonary | 31 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | |
- non-pulmonary | 4 | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 |
Food Poisoning | 4 | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – |
Total | 394 | 15 | 151 | 153 | 13 | 31 | 21 | 10 |
The following diseases are notifiable in this Boroughs
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 | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 305) |
Cholera | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 304) |
Continued fever | Do. |
Diphtheria | Do. |
Dysentery | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.299 made by Minister of Health, 1953 (l.4.53). |