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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 1951
[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 31/12/51,
| 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 | 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 | 203 | - | 43 | 139 | 17 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 21 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 30 | 26 | 17 | 39 | 11 | 12 | 117 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 19 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | ||||||||
| Pneumonia | 58 | - | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 71 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | l | - | - | 4 | 7 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | l | 4 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | l | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 321 | 14 | 162 | 83 | 16 | 11 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 38 | 20 | 47 | 17 | 15 | 41 | 29 | 5 | 95 | 37 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 23 | - | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | - |
| Measles | 2198 | 61 | 1218 | 894 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 148 | 135 | 185 | 295 | 202 | 197 | 231 | 226 | 182 | 397 | 30 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 625 | 60 | 388 | 167 | 4 | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 41 | 61 | 43 | 92 | 72 | 26 | 45 | 124 | 32 | 89 | 21 | 1 |