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 |
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Scarlet Fever | 9 | 7 | 17 | 12 | 23 | 26 | 94 |
Whooping Cough | 23 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 81 |
Measles | 13 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 70 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Acute Infective Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Post Infectious Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 63 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 114 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 6 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 33 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Food Poisoning | - | 3 | 6 | 10 | - | 5 | 24 |
Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis Respiratory | 7 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 48 |
Meninges and Central Nervous System | 2 | _ | _ | - | _ | - | 2 |
Other Forms | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 10 |
Totals, 1964 | 129 | 41 | 77 | 78 | 76 | 86 | 487 |
Totals, 1963 | 425 | 226 | 382 | 344 | 511 | 443 | 2,331 |