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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 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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Table: Table of Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1950, in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages.

Table of Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1950, in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages.

Under 112345-910-1415-1920-3435-4445-6465 & upTotalTotal cases removed to Hospital
MFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMF
Scarlet Fever2043119222131131109116161121--11--356188
Measles19215866110691121301181553613875412111--1--1,62287
Whooping Cough25262534333334393743749335---3-1---150939
Pneumonia322--11--33422-158761616101610826
Erysipelas-----------1--1-22122621207
Scabies---------242211-11-1----15-
Food Poisoning-------21221----15-132--203
Puerperal Pyrexia---------------1-8------92
Meningococcal Infection1-----------------------33
Acute Encephalitis---------------------------
Infective------------1---------—--11
Post Infectious---------1--------------11
Acute Poliomyelitis---------------------------
Paralytic1-----1--4--------------77
Non paralytic---------1-1---11-------44
Diphtheria------------------------33
Dysentery---11-----1-1----1------55
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary---2-1-1--2222111536311582139-161-
Tuberculosis, Other forms---2---1---1--2-12121---13-
5149891081551141701951872255585843131172150632522442921182,857376