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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Table 28.
Ward Distribution of Infectious Diseases Notified during the Year 1955.
| Disease | Twickenham | Hampton Hill | Heddington | Hampton Wick | Heath-field | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East | Central | South | West | Whitton | Hampton | Upper | Lower | |||||
| Dysentery | 8 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 34 | ||||
| Encephalitis | ||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| Food Poisoning | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 62 | ||
| Measles | 158 | 185 | 127 | 175 | 85 | 35 | 70 | 35 | 101 | 70 | 66 | 1,107 |
| Meningococcal Infections | — | — | ||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |||
| Para-Typhoid | ||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 6 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 85 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | I | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 10 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 97 |
| Whooping Cough | 15 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 95 |
| Totals | 203 | 206 | 155 | 218 | 106 | 99 | 122 | 79 | 139 | 104 | 90 | 1,521 |