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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 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Notified Cases. for the 52 weeks ending 3. 1. 42.
| DISEASE. | Cases notified in whole District | Ward Distribution of Cases. | No. of cases removed to Hospital. | Total Deaths In Borough. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all arjes - years. | Manor Park. | Little ILford | Woodgrange | Plashet | Kensington | Castle | Central | Wall End | Great- field | 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 | 68 | - | 19 | 35 | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | 16 | 11 | 4 | 4 | - | 5 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 59 | - | |
| Diphtheria | 45 | 1 | 13 | 17 | 31 | 3 | 8 | - | 1 | - | 10 | 15 | 3 | - | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | - | 5 | 43 | 3 |
| Enteric Fever | 3 | — | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Erysipelas | 23 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | - | 14 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 5 | 6 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Pneumonia | 33 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | - | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 45 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | — |
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 6 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Measles | 460 | 1.6 | 233 | 200 | 5 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | 48 | 114 | 38 | 15 | 35 | 37 | 35 | 51 | 24 | 63 | 15 | 3 |
| *Whooping Cough | 262 | 32 | 149 | 96 | 1 | 2 | .1 | - | - | 50 | 35 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 25 | 23 | 34 | 13 | 37 | 34 | 6 | |
Notifiable for duration of war.
??? diagnosed as Sub Meningitis
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