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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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Table III
| Acute P | imomyelitis | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Scarlet Fever | Measles | Whoopi Cough | ng Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | ||||
| Under 1 year | — | 2 | 2 | 7 | — | — | ||||
| 1-2 years | — | 1 | — | 11 | — | — | ||||
| 3-4 years | — | 2 | 2 | 16 | — | — | ||||
| 5-9 years | — | 20 | 3 | 19 | — | — | ||||
| 10-14 years | — | 8 | — | 4 | — | — | ||||
| 15-24 years | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 25 and over | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | ||||
| Age unknown | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| Total | — | 36 | 7 | 58 | — | — | ||||
| Age Periods | Dysentery | Food Poisoning | Meningococcal | |||||||
| infection | Pneumonia | Erysipelas | ||||||||
| Under 5 years | 25 | — | — | 1 | — | |||||
| 5-14 years | 11 | 3 | — | 1 | — | |||||
| 15-44 years | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | — | |||||
| 45-64 years | — | 1 | — | - | 1 | |||||
| 65 and over | — | — | — | - | — | |||||
| Age unknown | — | — | — | - | — | |||||
| Total | 44 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Table IV
| Age Periods | New Respiratory | Cases Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Deaths Non-Respiratory | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Under 5 years | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5-14 years | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 15-24 years | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 25-44 years | 4 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 45-64 years | 3 | - | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Over 65 years | 2 | - | — | _ | 1 | — | — | — |
| Total | 12 | 8 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — |
GENERAL HEALTH MATTERS, INCLUDING
INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL
Tuberculosis
There were three deaths from tuberculosis during the
year and twenty new cases were notified. It is interesting to
note that two of the new cases were in the over sixty-five
years group. One wonders how often this type of case may
be the unwitting source of infection to others.
The old person with the chronic cough, never at any
time very willing to seek medical advice, could be a case of
chronic tuberculosis. Through the years the disease process
and the body resistance have reached a stage where there is
no advancement one way or the other i.e. the person lives
more or less in a state of symbiosis with the disease.
Unfortunately this type is very often sputum positive and
thus a dangerous source of infection. Persuasive measures
to try and get more elderly people to attend for Chest X-Ray
seems to be the only way of combating this problem.