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 Barnes]
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Table 7. — Certain Infectious Diseases: Incidence per 1,000 of the Population in 1960.
Disease | Barnes | London (a.c.) | England and Wales |
---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 0.61 | 0.47 | 0.70 |
Diphtheria | - | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Enteric Fever | - | 0.02 | 0.01 |
Acute Pneumonia | 0.28 | 0.28 | 0.32 |
Dysentery | 0.15 | 1.61 | 0.95 |
Acute Poliomyelitis— | |||
Paralytic | - | 0.02 | 0.01 |
Non-Paralytic | - | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Food Poisoning | 0.05 | 0.38 | 0.17 |
Tuberculosis— | |||
Respiratory | 0.49 | 0.78 | 0.46 |
Others | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.06 |
Table 8. — Infectious Diseases Notified during the Year, 1960.
Diseases | Total Cases Notified | Ages, in years | Parish | Removed to Hospital | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 1 year i | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 9 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 19 | 20 to 24 | 25 to 34 | 35 to 44 | 45 to 64 | | 65 and over | Barnes | Mortlake | |||
Dysentery | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 4 | 2 | - |
Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
Food Poisoning | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
Measles | 8 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | - |
Pneumonia (Acute) | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | - |
Scarlet Fever | 24 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 17 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 18 | - |
Tuberculosis, Pul. | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 11 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
Tuberculosis, Non-Pul. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 16 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | — | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | — | 9 | 7 | — |
88 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 35 | 53 | 10 |