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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 8 - PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Notified Cases for Years ended 31.12.58 and 31.12.59.
| DISEASE | YEAR | 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 | Great field | 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 | 1958 | 151 | – | 43 | 84 | 20 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | 28 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 35 | – |
| 1959 | 1 46 | 1 | 35 | 90 | 17 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 12 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 36 | 31 | – | |
| Diphtheria | 1958 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1959 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Erysipelas | 1958 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | 3 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| 1959 | 12 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 3 | – | |
| puerperal Pyrexia | 1958 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| 1959 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1958 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 1959 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1958 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1959 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Pneumonia | 1958 | 41 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 7 | – | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 72+ |
| 1959 | 42 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 61 + | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1958 | 4 | – | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 4 | – |
| 1959 | 3 | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | –- | |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1958 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1959 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | |
| Dysentery | 1958 | 113 | 6 | 44 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 57 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | – |
| 1959 | 24 | - | 3 | 14 | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | – | 21 | 1 | 2 | – | |
| Food Poisoning | 1958 | 97 | 2 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 24 | 2 | 1 | - | 82 | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 84 | – |
| 1959 | 22 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 16 | 4 | - | - | – | – | – | 17 | – | |
| Measles | 1958 | 319 | 9 | 140 | 167 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 51 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 25 | 41 | 88 | 20 | 30 | 2 | – |
| 1959 | 1961 | 60 | 881 | 980 | 31 | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | 184 | 265 | 119 | 194 | 104 | 125 | 146 | 232 | 149 | 443 | 24 | – | |
| Whooping Cough | 1958 | 29 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 1 | - | - | - | - | _ | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | – | – |
| 1959 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | – | |
+ Total deaths from all forms of pneumonia.