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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 7. - PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Notified Cases for Year ended 31/12/50.
| DISEASE | Cases notified In whole district. | Ward Distribution of Cases. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital | Total Deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages - years. | Manor Park | Little Ilford | Wood-grange | Plashet | Kensington | Castle | Central . . | Wall End | Great-field | South | ||||||||||||
| At all ages | Usaer 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 1.35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and Up | |||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 270 | 1 | 110 | 122 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | 28 | 33 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 26 | 28 | 37 | 20 | 45 | 156 | - |
| Diphtheria | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | |
| Erysipelas | 21 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 7 | 9 | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | l | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 41 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 11 | - | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 18 | ||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 10 | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | 10 | - | 5 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 9 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 5 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | " | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | l | 1 | - | 1 | - | 4 | - |
| Measles „„ | 988 | 39 | 550 | 390 | 6 | 2. | 1 | - | 138 | 190 | 2.6 | 29 | 55 | 34 | 72 | 270 | 54 | 120 | 24 | - | ||
| Whooping Cough | 1027 | 86 | 569 | 356 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | 108 | 145 | 100 | 94 | 90 | 51 | 88 | 135 | 77 | 139 | 33 | 2 |