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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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Age
Periods
Dysentery
Food
Poisoning
Meningococcal
infection
Pneumonia
Erysipelas
Under 5 years 8 1 — — —
5-14 years 17 3 — 2 —
15-44 years 11 3 — 3 —
45-64 years 1 — — 5 -—
65 and over 1 — — 3 1
Age unknown 2 — — — —
Total 40 7 — 13 1
Table IV Tuberculosis
| Age Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 5 years | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5-14 years | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15-24 years | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 25-44 years | 3 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 45-64 years | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Over 65 years | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 8 | 10 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
GENERAL HEALTH MATTERS, INCLUDING INFECTIOUS
DISEASE CONTROL
Tuberculosis
There was one death from tuberculosis during the year
and 19 new cases were notified. Three of these new cases
occurred in the age group 15-24 years. This is a decided improvement
on the figures for 1958 and follows the national
pattern in the general downward trend in the number of new
cases being notified each year. New and efficient drugs, Mass
X-Ray and innoculation of susceptible adolescents with
B.C.G. vaccine have all played their part in this fall. However,
tuberculosis is still with us and complacency can be dangerous.
Diphtheria
No cases occurred in the district during the year and, as
before, the Middlesex County Council at their clinics in the
district, together with the local general practitioners, continued
the immunising campaign against the disease.
838 children completed full courses of primary immunisation
and 728 received re-inforcing injections against diphtheria.
Immunity against this disease must be kept at a high level.
Cases of diphtheria do still occur from time to time and in the
non-immunised if not fatal can leave the child with severe
and crippling defects. In this day and age not to have a child
immunised is tantamount to criminal neglect.
Whooping Cough.
The number of cases notified was 38 as compared with
six for the previous year. Due to the complications that can