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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TABLE VII
GASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1950
CLASSIFIED IN WARDS
Disease | Number of Cases Notified | |||||||||
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Brentford West | Brentford Central | Brentford East | Bedford Park | Chiswick Park | Grove Park | Gunnersbury | Old Chiswick | Turnham Green | Total Cases | |
Scarlet Fever | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 50 |
Whooping Cough | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33 |
Measles | 46 | 26 | 40 | 16 | 11 | 32 | 33 | 25 | 40 | 269 |
Pneumonia | 8 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 15 |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | ||||||||||
Paralytic | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 5 |
Non-Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 |
Dysentery | - | — | 1 | — | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | — | 2 | — | - | — | — | — | - | 2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 13 | - | 18 |
Erysipelas | — | - | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
Food Poisoning | — | - | — | 2 | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | 6 |
Tuberculosis:- | ||||||||||
Respiratory | 16 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 98 |
Non-nespiratory | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |