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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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| Disease | Number of Cases Notified | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - ye ars | ||||||||||||
| Under 1 | l | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 to 10 | 10 to15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | Over 65 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 29(5) | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| Whooping Cough | 65 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Measles | 773(1) | 23 | 49 | 63 | 82 | 90 | 437 | 22 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 26 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 6 |
| Ac. Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 4(2) | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Non-Paralytic | 2(2) | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||||||
| Diphtheria | 1(1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Dysentery | 7(1) | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 82 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 61 | 12 | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - |
| Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Figures in brackets denote number of cases subsequently not
confirmed
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