London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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CAUSES OF DEATH IN YOUR area (Contd.)
| Male | Female | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25. | Diarrhoea (under two years of age) | - | 1 | 1 |
| 26. | Appendicitis | - | 1 | 1 |
| 27. | Other digestive diseases | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 28. | Nephritis | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 29. | Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis | 1 | 1 | |
| 30. | Other maternal causes | 1 | 1 | |
| 31. | Premature birth | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 32. | Congenital malformations, birth injury, infantile disease | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| 33. | Suicide | 1 | 1 | |
| 34. | Road traffic accidents | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 35. | Other violent causes | 13 | 18 | 31 |
| 36. | All other causes | 14 | 8 | 22 |
| 169 | 142 | 311 | ||
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES OTHER THAN TUBERCULOSIS
| Disease. | Total Nos. Notified | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Measles | 29 | 1 | - | ||||
| Whooping Cough | 34 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||||
| Scarlet fever | 84 | 79 | - | ||||
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 3 | 3 | - | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorium | 1 | 1 | - | ||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | - | |||||
| Poliomyelitis | - | ||||||
| Polioencephalitis | 1 | 1 | - | ||||
| Age Periods | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Puerp. Pyrexia | Erysipelas | Pneumonia | Measles | Whooping Cough. |
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| 1-2 years | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| 2-3 " | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 5 |
| 3-4 " | 6 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 |
| 4-5 " | 9 | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | |
| 5-10 " | 51 | - | 11 | 7 | |||
| 10-15 " | 12 | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | |
| 15-20 " | 1 | - | - | - | - | ||
| 20-35 " | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| 35-45 " | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| 45-65 " | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Over 65 " | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 84 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 34 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorium
| Notified | 1 |
| Cases treated at home | - |
| Cases treated in hospital | 1 |
| Vision unimpaired | 1 |
| Total blindness | |
| Death | - |