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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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brentford Central | Brentford East | Brentford West | Bedford Park | Chiswick Park | Grove Park | Gunnersbury | Old Chiswick | Turnham Green | Total Cases | |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 5 | 7 | - | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 39 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | - | 6 | 40 |
| Measles | 14 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 47 |
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Dysentery | 34 | 7 | 25 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 115 |
| (14) | (4) | (4) | (1) | (1) | (24) | |||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 65 | - | 67 |
| Food Poisoning | 7 | 7 | 32 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | 2 | 55 |
| (7) | (7) | (32) | - | - | - | - | (5) | (1) | (52*) | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| - | - | - | - | (1) | - | - | - | - | (1) | |
| Tuberculosis:- | ||||||||||
| Respiratory | 1 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 51 |
| Non-Respiratory | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 9 |
| 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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