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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 1960
[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 | 39 | - | 1 | - | 6 | 3 | 20 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 40 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 47 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 15 | - | 2 | - | - | ||
| Pneumonia | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Dysentery | 115 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 30 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 5 | - |
| (24) | (1) | (4) | (3) | (1) | - | (3) | (1) | - | (6) | (2) | (3) | - | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 67 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 41 | 11 | 1 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 55 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 5 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| (52*) | (1) | (2) | (1) | - | (5) | (14) | (7) | (2) | (8) | (2) | (5) | (5) | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| (1) | (1) | ||||||||||||
| Figures in brackets denote number of cases subsequently not confirmed *This figure includes 26 cases subsequently confirmed as Shigella Sonnei Dysentery. | |||||||||||||
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