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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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| Male | Female | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31. | Premature birth | — | 1 | 1 |
| 32. | Congenital malformations, birth injury, infantile disease | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 33. | Suicide | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 34. | Road traffic accidents | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 35. | Other violent causes | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 36. | All other causes | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 146 | 150 | 296 | ||
Notifiable Diseases other than Tuberculosis
| Disease | Total Nos Notified | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 3 | 3 | — | ||||||
| Measles | 114 | 18 | — | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 92 | 3 | — | ||||||
| Pneumonia | 3 | 3 | 18 | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 21 | 12 | — | ||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 1 | — | ||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorium | — | — | — | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 5 | 4 | — | ||||||
| Poliomyelitis | — | — | — | ||||||
| Polioencephalitis | — | — | — | ||||||
| Enteric and Typhoid Fever | — | — | — | ||||||
| Malaria | — | — | — | ||||||
| Age Periods | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Encephalitis | Puer. Py. | Erysipelas | Pneu. monia | Meales | Whooping Cough | Cerbro-Spinal Fever |
| Under 1 yr | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
| 1—3 years | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 31 | 30 | - |
| 3—5 „ | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 29 | 31 | - |
| 5-10 „ | 9 | 1 | - | — | - | 2 | 49 | 23 | - |
| 10—15 „ | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 15—25 „ | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Over 25 „ | - | - | - | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
| Total | 21 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 114 | 92 | 2 | |
Ophthalmia Neonatorium
| Notified | - |
| Cases treated at home | — |
| Cases treated in hospital | — |
| Vision unimpaired | — |
| Total blindness | — |
| Death | — |