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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 1963
[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 | l | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 to 9 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 19 | 20 to 34 | 35 to 44 | 45 to 64 | 65 and over | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 16 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 334 | 7 | 31 | 43 | 45 | 40 | 150 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| (4) | (1) | (3) | |||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 58 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 36 | 11 | - | - |
| Encephalitis (Infective) | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Food Poisoning | 43 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 2 |
| (411) | (2*) | (4) | (6) | (8) | (3) | (5) | (11) | (2) | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid "B" | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Typhoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Figures in brackets denote number of cases sub
sequently not confirmed
* In addition 1 case diagnosed Sonne Dysentery.
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