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Barnes 1953
[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 1953.
| Disease. | Barnes | London | England and Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typhoid Fever | - | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Scarlet Fever | 0.52 | 1.02 | 1.39 |
| Whooping Cough | 3.39 | 3.30 | 3.58 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | 0.01 |
| Erysipelas | 0.17 | 0.12 | 0.14 |
| Small-pox | - | - | - |
| Measles | 7.63 | 8.09 | 12.36 |
| Pneumonia | 0.67 | 0.73 | 0.84 |
| Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) | |||
| Paralytic | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| Non-paralytic | - | 0.03 | 0.04 |
| Food Poisoning | 0.30 | 0.38 | 0.24 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 0.02 | 28.61 | 18.23 |
| Dysentery | 0.62 | - | - |
| Malaria | 0.05 | - | - |
Table 7.—Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1953.
| Diseases. | Total Cases Notified | Ages, in years. | Parish | Removed to Hospital | Total Daths of Residents† | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and over | Barnes | Mortlake | ||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 21 | - | - | - | 4 | - | 14 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 6 | 15 | 4 | - |
| Poliomyelitis | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Measles | 306 | 7 | 16 | - | 75 | - | 197 | 8 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 82 | 224 | 6 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 136 | 15 | 6 | - | 29 | - | 80 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 36 | 100 | 3 | - |
| Pul. Tuberculosis | 37 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 26 | 27 | 11 |
| Non-Pul. Tuberculosis | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 6 | - | - | 13 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 7 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infect'n | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | 11 | - | 6 | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | 14 | 11 | - | - | |
| Food Poisoning | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | - | |
| Para Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | |
| All Diseases | 579 | 22 | 22 | - | 109 | 12 | 292 | 26 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 28 | 10 | 178 | 401 | 50 | 17 |
† 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.