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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 8„ - PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASEo Notified Cases for Year ended 31/12/92
| DISEASE | cases notified in whole district | Ward Distribution of cases | No.of cases removed to Hospital | Total Deaths | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages - years | Ward distruibution of cases | |||||||||||||||||||||
| At all ages | Under 1 | 1 to 4 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 24 | 25 to 34 | 35 to 44 | 65 and up | Manor park | Little Ilford | Wood grange | Plashet | Kenslington | Wood grange | Castle | Centeral | Wall end | Creatified | South | |||
| Diphtheria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | l | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 7 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | l | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 61 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 77 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 10 | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | l | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 10 | 2 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | l | - | l | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | — | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | l | - | •- | l | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Food Poisoning | 8 | •- | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | 3 | - |
| Measles | 1883 | 42 | 714 | 1089 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 186 | 257 | 120 | 190 | 202 | 168 | 166 | 262 | 146 | 186 | 20 | - | |
| Whooping Cough | 361 | 29 | 176 | 149 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 40 | 84 | 17 | 20 | 32 | 34 | 33 | 71 | 16 | 14 | 15 | - |