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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 1955
[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 Year ended 31/12/55
| 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 4 | 5 to 9 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 24 | 25 to 34 | 35 to 44 | 45 to 64 | 65 and up | |||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 27 | - | 11 | 13 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | - |
| Diphtheria | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | 11 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 9 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 60 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 24 | 10 | - | 13 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 11 | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 23 | - | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 23 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 11 | - | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | - | - | - | 4 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 7 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | - |
| Measles | 2,388 | 57 | 966 | 1352 | 9 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 251 | 309 | 171 | 250 | 215 | 152 | 226 | 306 | 187 | 321 | 22 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 208 | 19 | 78 | 101 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 34 | 33 | 18 | 19 | 11 | 19 | 22 | 18 | 7 | 27 | 4 | - |