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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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Table III
| Acute Poliomyelitis | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Scarlet Fever | Measles | Whooping Cough | Paralytic | Non-Paralytic |
| Under 1 year | — | — | 31 | — | — | — |
| 1-2 years | — | — | 178 | 2 | — | — |
| 3-4 years | — | 4 | 205 | 3 | — | — |
| 5-9 years | — | 7 | 358 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 10-14 years | — | 2 | 5 | 1 | — | — |
| 15-24 years | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 25 and over | — | —- | 2 | — | — | — |
| Age unknown | ||||||
| Total | — | 14 | 782 | 9 | 1 | — |
Table III.
| Age Periods | Dysentery | Food Meningococcal Poisoning infection | pneumonia | Erysipelas | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 5 years | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 5-14 years | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 15-44 years | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 45-64 years | — | — | — | — | I |
| 65 and over | — | — | — | — | I |
| Age unknown | |||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 |
Table IV Tuberculosis
| New Cases | Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory |
| Under 5 years | 3 | — | — | — |
| 5-14 years | 1 | — | — | — |
| 15-24 years | 4 | — | — | — |
| 25-44 years | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 45-64 years | 8 | — | — | — |
| Over 65 years | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Total | 20 | 3 | 1 | — |
GENERAL HEALTH MATTERS, INCLUDING
INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL
Tuberculosis
Twenty cases of respiratory tuberculosis and three
cases of non-respiratory tuberculosis were notified during
the year. There was one death from respiratory tuberculosis
and this occurred in the over 65 years age group.
Twenty per cent of the cases occurred in children up to
the age of fourteen years. These are usually cases of
Primary Tuberculosis which normally respond very quickly
to treatment. Nevertheless the notification of such a case
is the signal for the start of much detective work by the
staffs of the various bodies charged with the care of the
public health. The object of the search is the infected
adult who has been the source of infection. The search
is very intensive and can even entail the skin testing and
X-raying of large numbers of school children and teachers
should the case occur in a child attending school. More
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