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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
Walthamstow 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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Food Poisoning
Nine cases were notified during 1963 and none was fatal.
There was one familial 'outbreak', in which the infecting
agent was Salmonella Typhi murium.
Poliomyelitis
No case of Poliomyelitis was notified during the year.
Tuberculosis
The following table shows particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and of all deaths from the disease in the Borough durin 1963:
| Age Periods | NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1-4 years | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 5-9 years | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 10-14 years | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15 19 years | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | ||
| 20 24 years | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 25-34 years | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | ||
| 35-44 years | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 45-54 years | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| 55- 64 years | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 65 and over | 8 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | ||
| 36 | 19 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | - | - | |
| Totals | 55 | 10 | 6 | - | ||||
| 65 | 6 | |||||||