London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Waltham Forest 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Waltham Forest]
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| Dl SE ASE | 1ST QUARTER | 2ND QU A R T ER | 3RD QU ART ER | 4 T H QU ARTER | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 16 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 37 |
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 20 |
| Measles | 62 | 62 | 70 | 103 | 297 |
| Tuberculosis - Pulmonary | 17 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 68 |
| Tuberculosis - Non-pulmonary | 14 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 37 |
| Typhoid | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Paratyphoid | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Acute Meningitis | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| Dysentery | 2 | 7 | 1 1 | 4 | 24 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| Infective Jaundice | 4 | 20 | 7 | 10 | 41 |
| Malaria (contracted naturally abroad) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Mumps encephalitis | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| T otals | 127 | 135 | 139 | 162 | 563 |
| AGE PERIODS | NEW CASES | DE ATH S | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P U LMON ARY | NON-PULMON ARY | PULMONARY | NON-PULMONARY | |||||
| Under 1 year | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F |
| 1-4 years | 2 | I | 2 | |||||
| 5-9year | 2 | |||||||
| 10-14 year | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 15-19 year | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 20-24 years | 7 | 3 | I | |||||
| 25-34year | 8 | 1 | | 10 I | 5 | ||||
| 34-44 year | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 45-54year | 5 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 65 and over | 4 | 3 | 2 | I | | | |||
| 5 | 2 | I | 3 | |||||
| 38 | 30 | 18 | 19 | 4 | - . | - | ||
| Totals | 6 | 8 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| 105 | 4 | |||||||
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