London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
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]
This page requires JavaScript
24.
TABLE 10 - PPEVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Notified Cases for Tear ended 31/12/57
| 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 | Greatfleld | 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 | 15 | 1 | 35 | 80 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 27 | 53 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 34 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 13 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 75 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 23 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 18 | *87 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 15 | - | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | 15 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 167 | 1 | 68 | 33 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 69 | 2 | 27 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 6 | |
| Food Poisoning | 13 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | - |
| Measles | 807 | 31 | 380 | 379 | 11 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 129 | 119 | 61 | 72 | 99 | 44 | 37 | 71 | 99 | 76 | 11 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 116 | 15 | 55 | 38 | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 42 | 5 | - |
* Total deaths from all forms of Pneumonia.