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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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C.-Ages of Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1946.
| Disease | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At Ages-Years | ||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 and under 10 | 10 and under 15 | 15 and under 20 | 20 and under 35 | 35 and under 45 | 45 and under 65 | 65 and over | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 651 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 34 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | 7† | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Measles | 188 | 5 | 10 | 28 | 21 | 31 | 84 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 20 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 16§ | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 4 | - | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 3 |
| Malaria (Contracted Abroad) | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
*In addition, two cases originally notified were subsequently diagnosed not Scarlet Fever.
†in addition, eight cases originally notified were subsequently diagnosed not Diphtheria.
§In addition, one case originally notified was subsequently diagnosed not Dysentery.