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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 1942
[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 2.1.43.
| DISEASE. | Cases notified in whole District. | Ward Distribution of Cases. | No.of cases removed to Hospital. | Total Deaths in Borough | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At .all ages - years. | Manor Park. | Little I If or d | Wood-grange | Plashet | Kensington | Castle | Central | Wall End | Greatileld | 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 | 210 | 2 | 72 | 108 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 39 | 15 | 8 | 20 | 19 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 25 | 174 | - | |
| Diphtheria | 49 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 49 | 1 |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 37 | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | - | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 15 | - | - | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 | |||
| Pneumonia | 37 | 1 | _ | ..... 3 1- - | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | - | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 45 | |
| Ophthaimda Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |||
| Menining ococcal Meningitis | 12 | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| * Measles | 1091 | 417 | 85 | 564 | 15 | " 5 | ——( 5 | - | 74 | 91 | 51 | 137 | 102 | 92 | 131 | 121 | 46 | L86 | 29 | 2 | ||
| * Whooping Cough | 227 | 24 | 121 | 79 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 20 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 10 | 13 | 46 | 43 | 14 | 33 | £0 | ||
* Notifiable for Duration of War.