London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1961
[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 | 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 | 26 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| (3) | (*) | (2) | |||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Measles | 542 | 18 | 48 | 60 | 76 | 71 | 244 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Dysentery | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| (l) | (1) | ||||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 66 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 44 | 6 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 8 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 |
| (5) | (1) | (1) | ' (1) | (l) | (1) | ||||||||
| Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid 'A' | 1 | - | 1 | - | |||||||||
Figures in brackets denote number of cases subsequently
not confirmed.
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