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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 9 - PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Notified Cases for Year ended 31/12/56
| 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 | Xenslngtor | Castle | Central | Wall End | Greatfleld | South | ||||||||||||
| At all ages | Under I | 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 | 25 | - | 9 | 15 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | 3 | 6 | - | 3 | - | 4 | 9 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 6 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 . | - | - | 6 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 4 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | - |
| Pneumonia | 54 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 11 | *63 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | - | |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Dysentery | 45 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | - | 18 | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 27 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 41 | - | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | - |
| Measles | 316 | 16 | 144 | 154 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 38 | 72 | 47 | 13 | 9 | 32 | 55 | 9 | 15 | 26 | 3 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 168 | 11 | 60 | 88 | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 16 | 67 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 15 | 6 | - |
* Total deaths from all forms of pneumonia.