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Waltham Forest 1973
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Waltham Forest]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES - NOTIFICATIONS
| DISEASE | 1ST QUARTER | 2ND QUARTER | 3RD QUARTER | 4TH QUARTER | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 21 | 17 | 4 | 13 | 55 |
| Whooping Cough | 19 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 37 |
| Measles | 436 | 547 | 165 | 12 | 1,160 |
| Tuberculosis - Pulmonary | 21 | 18 | 13 | 17 | 69 |
| Tuberculosis - Non-pulmonary | 9 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 40 |
| Typhoid | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Meningitis | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | 8 |
| Dysentery | 11 | 2 | 3 | - | 16 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - |
| Food Poisoning | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Infective Jaundice | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
| Malaria (contracted naturally abroad) | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 |
| Mumps encephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Totals | 528 | 605 | 208 | 67 | 1,408 |
TUBERCULOSIS
New Notifications and Deaths during 1973
| AGE PERIODS | NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PULMONARY | NON-PULMONARY | PULMON ARY | NON-PULMON ARY | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 - 4 years | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 5-9 years | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 10-14 years | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 15 - 19 years | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 20 - 24 years | 8 | 5 | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | - |
| 25 - 34 years | 8 | 2 | 8 | 7 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 35 - 44 years | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| 45 - 54 years | 6 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 55 - 64 years | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 65 and over | 11 | 3 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Totals | 51 | 18 | 17 | 23 | 5 | 2 | - | 1 |
| 69 | 40 | 7 | 1 | |||||
| 109 | 8 | |||||||
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