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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Twickenham 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Ward Distribution of Infectious Diseases Notified during the Year 1954.
| Disease | Twickenham | Hampton Hill | Teddington | Hampton Wick | Heath-field | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East | Central | South | West | Whitton | Hampton | Upper | Lower | |||||
| Dysentery | 15 | - | 3 | 12 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 |
| Encephalitis | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| Food Poisoning | 9 | - | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 54 |
| Measles | 1 | 3 | 13 | 50 | 46 | 171 | 119 | 18 | 11 | 71 | 20 | 523 |
| Meningococcal Infections | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 4 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Para-Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 82 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| Scarlet Fever | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 7 | - | 6 | 5 | 64 |
| Whooping Cough | 4 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 74 |
| Totals | 41 | 15 | 32 | 92 | 66 | 241 | 150 | 51 | 26 | 118 | 36 | 868 |
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