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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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TABLE VI
AGES OF GASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1953
| Disease | Number Of Gases N®tified | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - years | ||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | Over 65 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 65 | - | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 37 | 8 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 141 | 17 | 12 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 56 | 4 | - | - | - | — | - |
| Measles | 810 | 18 | 88 | 106 | 104 | 108 | 363 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 43 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 11 |
| Ac. Poliomyelitis-Paralytic | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 11 |
| Non-Paralytic | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Dysentery | 11 | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | — | — | - | 17 | 1 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 23 | 1 | — | — | c= | — | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
* In addition, one case originally notified was subsequently diagnosed
not Diphtheria.
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