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Barnes 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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Table 6.—Infectious Diseases: Incidence per 1,000 of the Population in 1951.
| Disease. | Barnes. | London. | England and Wales. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typhoid Fever | .04 | .01 | .00 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | .01 | .02 |
| Meningococcal Infection | .04 | .03 | .03 |
| Scarlet Fever | .4 | 1.10 | 1.11 |
| Whooping Cough | .2 | 3.11 | 3.87 |
| Diphtheria | - | 0.01 | .02 |
| Erysipelas | .04 | 0.15 | .14 |
| Small-pox | - | - | - |
| Measles | 13.3 | 14.64 | 14.07 |
| Pneumonia | .7 | 0.72 | .99 |
| Ac. Poliomyelitis (including Ac. Polioencephalitis) Paralytic | - | 0.02 | .03 |
| Non Paralytic | - | 0.02 | .02 |
| Food Poisoning | - | 0.23 | .13 |
Table 7.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1951.
| Diseases. | Total Cases Notified. | Ages, In years. | Parish | Removed to Hospital. | ! otal Deaths of 1 Residents.† | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 to 2. | 2 to | 3 to 4. | 4 to 5. | 5 to 10. | 10 to 16 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25. | 25 to 35. | 35 to 46. | 45 to 65. | 65 and over. | Barnes. | Mortlake. | ||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 17 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 13 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 10 | 6 | - |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Encephalitis— | ||||||||||||||||||
| post infs. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 541 | 13 | 35 | 54 | 75 | 78 | 262 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 257 | 284 | 5 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 82 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 27 | l | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 34 | 48 | 5 | - |
| Pul. Tuberculosis | 38 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 22 | 33 | 5 |
| Non-Pul. Tuberculosis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 29 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 10 | - | 13 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | - |
| Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| All Diseases | 718 | 16 | 45 66 | 94 | 91 | 307 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 338 | 380 | 57 | 19 | |
†The deaths recorded in this column are the total corrected number of
deaths assignable to the District, and are not necessarily deaths of persons
recorded as notified during the year.