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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 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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Notifiable Diseases other than Tuberculosis.
| Disease | Total Nos. Notified | Admitted to Hospital | deaths | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| M'easles | 120 | 12 | 1 | ||||
| Whooping Cough. | 16 | 10 | — | ||||
| Pneumonia. | 3 | — | 18 | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | 33 | 33 | — | ||||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 1 | — | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | ||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorium | 1 | 1 | — | ||||
| Erysipelas | 4 | o | — | ||||
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | — | ||||
| Polioencephalitis | — | — | — | ||||
| Malaria (non-civilian) | 1 | 1 | — | ||||
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | — | ||||
| Age Periods | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Puerp. Pyrexia | Erysipelas | Pneu-monia | Whooping | |
| Measles | Cough | ||||||
| Uuder 1 yr.— | — | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | |
| 1—2 years | 1 | — | — | — | — | 15 | 2 |
| 2—3 ,, | 1 | — | — | — | — | 21 | 5 |
| 3—4 ,, | 3 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 5 |
| 4—5 „ | 1 | — | — | — | — | 25 | — |
| 5—10 ,, | 16 | 2 | — | — | — | 41 | 2 |
| 10—15,, | 6 | 1 | — | —- | — | 1 | — |
| 15—20,, | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 20—35,, | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — |
| 35—45,, | 2 | — | — | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 45—65,, | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Over 65 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 33 | 4 | — | 4 | 3 | 120 | 16 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
| Notified | 1 |
| Cases treated at home | — |
| Cases treated in hospital | 1 |
| Vision unimpaired | 1 |
| Total blindness | — |
| Death | — |