Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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C. - INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The following table shows the ward incidence of the various infectious diseases which were notified during the year:-
Disease | St. James Street | High Street | Hoe Street | Wood Street | Hale End | Higham Hill | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 12 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 17 | 75 |
Whooping Cough | 11 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 40 |
Measles | 5 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 26 | 24 | 94 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 11 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 38 |
Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Acute Infective Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Post Infectious Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 2 | 14 | 41 | 1 | 2 | 62 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Food Poisoning | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 23 |
Erysipelas | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 18 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis Respiratory | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 42 |
Meninges and Central Nervous System | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Other Forms | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 3 | 9 |
Totals, 1962 | 58 | 25 | 51 | 97 | 81 | 95 | 407 |
Totals, 1961 | 164 | 192 | 275 | 357 | 469 | 371 | 1,828 |