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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
Tottenham 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Table III Table of Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1949, in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages.
| Notifiable Disease. | Under 1 | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-19 | 20-34 | 35-44 | 45-64 | 65 & up | Total. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 69 | 56 | 17 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 251 | 125 |
| Measles | 18 | 25 | 61 | 61 | 85 | 71 | 64 | 73 | 76 | 61 | 173 | 176 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 967 | 61 |
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 28 | 37 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 199 | 10 |
| Pneumonia | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 73 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 10 |
| Scabies | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 18 | - |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 6 |
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Polioencephalitis | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 5 |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 10 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 |
| Dysentery.. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 43 | 39 | 16 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 210 | - |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 1 | - | - | 2 | L | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 22 | - |
| 34 | 31 | 79 | 79 | 105 | 95 | 93 | 111 | 113 | 87 | 282 | 284 | 29 | 35 | 24 | 30 | 63 | 81 | 24 | 23 | 42 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 1811 | 243 | |