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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
West Ham 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
(a) Infectious Diseases.
Table showing Cases of Infectious Disease Notified and Confirmed, 1956.
Diseases
All Age
j Groups
Ages |
1955
1956
Under
1
1-2
3-1+
5-9
10-14
15-24
25 &
over
Deaths
Smallpox
a*
Cholera
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Diphtheria
14
2
-
-
-
2
-
mm
-
Erysipelas
18
22
-
•
■■■
1
1
->
20
Scarlet Fever
112
97
24
53
13
2
—
_
Typhoid Fever
1
-
-
-
BP
-
Paratyphoid Fever
1
3
«*
«=
-
1
-
2
-
Typhus
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Relapsing Fever
-
-
-
-
«
—
-
-
-
Plague
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Acute Poliomyelitis:
(Paralytic)
15
3
1
-
-
1
-
1
-
-
(Non-paralytic)
7
-
-
«
-
-
-
-
Ophthalmia Neonatort
im 1
-
Ci
-
-
-
-
-
-
Malaria
1
1
-
-
-
-
-
1
«
Dysentery
111
285
9
30
32
102
38
15
59
-
Acute Pneumonia
94
84
7
3
1
2
6
66
105
(All
forms)
Tuberculosis:
Respiratory
145
119
2
5
9
21
82
11
Meninges
2
a
1
■m|
1
Other
7
9
-
-
m
-
«
2
7
• 2
Puerperal Pyrexia
62
19
-
-
m
-
-
8
11
-
Measles
3,169
550
25
105
150
255
12
2
1
-
Whooping Cough
288
276
38
59
65
111
1
2
1
Food Poisoning
20
1
14
1
1
1
6
-
5
-
Leprosy
_
—
•
0
o
-
Meningococcal
Infection
4
3
2
1
2
Acute Encephalitis:
Infective
(Post Infeotious)
-
1
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
-
•
TOTALS:
4,070
1,490
83
206
274
538
76
59
254
121
7