Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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D.-Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year, 1946.
Classified in Wards.
Disease | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | |||||||||
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Brentford West | Brentford Central | Brentford East | Bedford Park | Chiswick Park | Grove Park | Gunners-bury | Old Chiswick | Turnham Green | Total Cases | |
Scarlet Fever | 8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 65 |
Whooping Cough | 10 | 6 | - | 2 | - | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 34 |
Diphtheria | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 7 |
Measles | 27 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 25 | 18 | 16 | 49 | 29 | 188 |
Pneumonia | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 20 |
Gerebro-Spinal Fever | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Dysentery | 12 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 16 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | - | 18 |
Erysipelas | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 8 |
Malaria (Contracted Abroad) | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -; | - | - |
Tuberculosis- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Respiratory | 15 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 117 |
Non-Respiratory | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 |