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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Table 6.-PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Notified Cases for the 52 weeks ending 30th December, 1944.
| DISEASE. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Ward Distribution of Cases. | Number of cases Removed to Hospital. | Total Deaths in Borough. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages - years. | Manor Park | Little Ilford. | Wood-grange. | Plashet. | Kensington. | Castle. | Central. | Wall End. | Greatfield. | 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 and Up. | |||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 132 | - | 35 | 51 | 30 | 11 | 5 | - | - | - | 8 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 31 | 15 | 11 | 110 | - |
| Diphtheria | 33 | - | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | - | 5 | 33 | 3 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1† |
| Para-Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | 18 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | 12 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 5 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | - |
| Pneumonia | 50 | 5 | - | 4 | - | 16 | - | - | 15 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 59 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - |
| Dysentery | 5 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 5 | - |
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 |
| *Measles | 258 | 6 | 72 | 81 | 48 | 37 | 14 | - | - | - | 5 | 8 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 25 | 80 | 44 | 39 | 21 | - |
| *Whooping Cough | 293 | 35 | 176 | 71 | 2 | 4 | 5 | - | - | - | 32 | 38 | 23 | 10 | 34 | 48 | 38 | 23 | 38 | 14 | 22 | 1 |
* Notifiable for Duration of War.
† Inward transferable death.