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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 1959
[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-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 | 94(3) | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 62 | 12 | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 41 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 4 | - | |||||
| Measles | 328 | 11 | 31 | 39 | 38 | 40 | 149 | 14 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Pneumonia | 10 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Ac.Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Dysentery | 10 | - | - | 1 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 70 | - | -• | - | - | -- | 59 | 11 | |||||
| Erysipelas | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | |
| Food Poisoning | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | |||
| Typhoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Figures in brackets denote number: of cases subsequently not
confirmed.
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