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Shoreditch 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING 1964
(confirmed diagnoses)
| Notifiable Disease | Total number of confirmed cases | Ages | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under l year | 1-5 years | 5 15 years | 15- 25 years | 25-45 years | 45-65 years | 65 years+ | Deaths | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 26 | - | 9 | 13 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Acute encephalitis - infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| post infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric (paratyphoid) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - |
| Measles | 188 | 8 | 105 | 74 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Pneumonia | 6 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| non paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scabies | 8 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Scarlet fever | 52 | - | 9 | 43 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping cough | 36 | 3 | 19 | 14 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis pulmonary | 14 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
| non pulmonary | 5 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - |
| Pood Poisoning | 13 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 4 | - |
| Total | 355 | 11 | 146 | 146 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 13 | 6 |
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 Public Health Act 1936 (Section 143) Reg. No. 299
pneumonia 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 (Infectious Diseases) Amendment
Regulations 1960.
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 the Minister of Health, 1953 (1.4.53).
Enteric fever (including Public Health (London) Act 1936 (Section 192 and 304)
typhoid and para-typhoid) Reg No, 299 made by Minister of Health 1953 (1.4.53).
Erysipelas Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 304)
Pood Poisoning Pood and Drugs Act 1955 (Section 26).
Leprosy Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg. No. 1036
made by Minister of Health 1951 (22.6.51).
Malaria Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg. No. 299
Measles Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Regs.Nos.1100
205 and 420 made by Minister of Health, 1938, 1940
and 1948,
Membranous croup Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 304)