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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
East Ham 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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PREVALENCE OP, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Notified Cases for the 52 weeks ending 30.12.39.
| DISEASE. | Cases notified in whole district | Ward Distribution of Cases. | No.of oases recoved to Hospital | Total Deaths in Borough | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| at all ages - years. | Manor Park. | Little Hford | Woodgrange | Plashet | Kcnsington | Castlel | Central | Wall End. | ???eatfisd | . South. | ||||||||||||
| At all ages | Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 up | |||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 196 | 1 | 44 | 88 | 35 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 21 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 37 | 13 | 32 | ,8 | 16 | - | |
| Diphtheria | 91 | 2 | 27 | 34 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 2 | - | - | 9 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 91 | 6 |
| Enteric Fever | 8 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 8 | 3 |
| Erysipelas | 41 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 9 | - | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 16 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | |
| Pneumonia | 59 | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | 3 | 10 | 6 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 8 | S | 3 | 8 | 22 | 64 |
| Opthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | _ |
| Meningoecal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | — | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
| * Measles | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | -- | 1 | - | i | |
*Notifiable for duration of war.