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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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| Disease | Corrected Notifications | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | — | — | — | |||||
| Measles | 381 | 48 | 1 | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 127 | 18 | 1 | |||||
| Pneumonia | 24 | 7 | 34 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 38 | 11 | — | |||||
| Cerebro -spinal Fever | 1 | 1 | — | |||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | — | — | |||||
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | |||||
| Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 4 | 3 | — | |||||
| „ (Non-paralytic) | 4 | 3 | — | |||||
| Polioencephalitis | — | — | — | |||||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | — | — | |||||
| Malaria | 2 | — | ||||||
| Dysentery | 2 | — | ||||||
| Food Poisoning | 8 | — | ||||||
| Age Periods | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Measles | Whooping Cough | Cerebro Spinal Fever | Acute Poliomyelitis | |
| paralytic | Non-Paralytic | |||||||
| Under 1 yr. | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1—2 yrs. | — | — | — | 88 | — | — | — | |
| 3—4 yrs. | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 5—9 yrs. | — | 23 | — | |||||
| 10—14 yrs. | — | 2 | — | — | — | |||
| 15—24 yrs. | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 25 and over | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Age unknown | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Total | 38 | — | 381 | |||||
| Age Periods | Malaria | Dysentery | Encep-alitis | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Erysipelas | Pneumonia | |
| Under 5 years | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 2 | |
| 5—14yrs. | — | 2 | — | 3 | — | — | ||
| 15—44 yrs. | 1 | — | 4 | — | — | 8 | ||
| 45—64 yrs. | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 5 | |
| 65 and over | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | |
| Age unknown | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Total | 5 | — | 8 | — | — | 24 | ||