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 8.—Certain Infectious Diseases: Incidence per 1,000 of the Population in 1963.
Disease | Barnes | London (a.c.) | England and Wales |
---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 0.03 | 0.32 | 0.37 |
Diphtheria | - | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Enteric Fever | - | 0.02 | 0.01 |
Acute Pneumonia | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
Dysentery | 1.11 | 1.55 | 0.67 |
Acute Poliomyelitis— | |||
Paralytic | - | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Non-Paralytic | - | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Food Poisoning | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.12 |
Tuberculosis— | |||
Respiratory | 0.54 | 0.62 | 0.03 |
Others | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
Table 9.—Infectious Diseases Notified during the Year 1963.
Diseases | Total Cases Notified | Ages, in years | Parish | Removed to Hospital | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 1 year | 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 | 65and over , | Barnes | Mortlake | |||
Dysentery | 43 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 7 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | 40 | 1 |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Food Poisoning | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 385 | 9 | 41 | 40 | 50 | 53 | 167 | 15 | 5 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 209 | 176 | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia (Acute) | 14 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 9 | - |
Poliomyelitis, Non Para. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Tuberculosis, Pul. | 21 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 10 |
Tuberculosis, Non-Pul. | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Whooping Cough | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | - |
477 | 11 | 47 | 43 | 51 | 60 | 190 | 23 | 8 | - | 7 | 8 | 20 | 9 | 226 | 251 | 14 |