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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
Hounslow 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hounslow]
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Table 3 Corrected notifications of infectious disease 1968
| Disease | Total | Age in years Under | 65 and over | Age unknown | Cases admitted to hospital | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-19 | 20-34 | 35-44 | 45-64 | |||||
| Dysentery | 109 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 51 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 8 | - | - | 14 | ||
| Encephalitis, acute | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |||||||||
| Erysipelas | 9 | - | — | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | 2 | ||||||
| Pood poisoning | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 6 | |||||
| Infective Jaundice | 29 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 2 | - | 14 | ||||
| Malaria | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 5 | ||||||||
| Measles | 466 | 24 | 70 | 86 | 69 | 56 | 139 | 3 | 13 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 12 | |
| Meningococcal infection | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |||||||
| Paratyphoid fever | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia, acute | 4 | - | - | - | — | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | |||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 36 | 7 | 24 | 5 | - | - | 36 | ||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 105 | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 23 | 55 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Tuberculosis pulmonary | 66 | . | - | - | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 20 | |||
| non-pulmonary | 22 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | - | 2 | 5 | ||
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Whooping cough | 78 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 9 |
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