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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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| Male | Female | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29. Puerperal and postabortive sepsis | — | — | — |
| 30. Other maternal causes | — | 1 | 1 |
| 31. Premature birth | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 32. Congenital malformations, birth injury, infantile disease | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 33. Suicide | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 34. Road traffic accidents | 4 | — | 4 |
| 35. Other violent causes | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 36. All other causes | 11 | 10 | 21 |
| 156 | 153 | 309 |
| Disease | Total Nos. Notified | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Measles | 2 | 1 | — | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Pneumonia | — | — | 12 | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever. | 24 | 23 | — | ||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 1 | — | ||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | ||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorium | 1 | 1 | — | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | 1 | — | ||||||
| Poliom | yelitis | — | — | — | |||||
| Polioencephalitis | 1 | 1 | — | ||||||
| Age Periods | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Encephalitis | Puer. Py. | Eryipelas | Pneumonia | Measles | Whooping Cough | Cerebro-Spinal Fever |
| Under 1 yr. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | l | 1 |
| 1—3 years | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 3—5 „ | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 5—10 „ | 6 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | l | — |
| 10—15 „ | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | l | — |
| 15—25 „ | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Over 25„ | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
| Total | 24 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Notified 1
Cases treated at home —
Cases treated in hospital 1
Vision unimpaired 1
Total blindness —
Death —