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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
Feltham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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| Age Periods. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Puerperal Pyrexia. | Erysipelas. | Pneumonia. | Enteric. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | ||||||
| 2 | ||||||
| 3 | 5 | |||||
| 4 | 2 | |||||
| 5 | 3 | |||||
| 10 | 2 | |||||
| 15 | 1 | |||||
| 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 35 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 45 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 65 | ||||||
| Total— | 142 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Notified 3
Cases treated at home 2
Cases treated in hospital 1
Vision unimpaired 3
Total Blindness 0
Deaths 0
New cases and mortality in 1937 (no cases were notified in persons employed in the milk trade).
| New Cases—14. | Deaths—14. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods. | Respiratory. | Non-Respiratorv. | Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory. | ||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 1 | ||||||||
| 5 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 25 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 35 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 45 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 55 | ||||||||
| 65 and up | ||||||||
| Total | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
The majority of new cases are among new inhabitants
who were already infected with the disease before coming
to live in this neighbourhood.