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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 1938
[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 | 5 | |||||
| 3 | 10 | |||||
| 4 | 10 | |||||
| 5 | 20 | |||||
| 10 | 24 | 4 | ||||
| 15 | 16 | 4 | ||||
| 20 | 28 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 35 | 12 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 45 | ||||||
| 65 | ||||||
| Total | 125 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
| Notified | 5 |
| Cases treated at home | 2 |
| Cases treated in hospital | 3 |
| Vision unimpaired | 5 |
| Total Blindness | 0 |
| Deaths | 0 |
Tuberculosis
New cases and mortality in 1938 (no cases were notified in persons employed in the milk trade).
| New Cases—14 | Deaths—12 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | ||||||||
| 1 | l | |||||||
| 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 25 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| 35 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 45 | 1 | |||||||
| 65 and up | ||||||||
| Total | 3 | 6 | l | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | l |
All Tuberculosis deaths had been previously notified.
The majority of new cases are among new inhabitants
who were already infected with the disease before coming to
live in this neighbourhood. The notification is efficient.
No immunization against diphtheria is undertaken in
your district.