Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Table of Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1951, in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages
Diseases | 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 | ||||||||||||
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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 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 27 | 25 | 67 | 65 | 7 | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | - | _ | = | 1 | 1 | - | - | 245 | 115 |
Measles | 30 | 33 | 79 | 63 | 88 | 87 | 117 | 109 | 146 | 125 | 211 | 211 | 8 | 12 | - | 3 | 2 | 6 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1331 | 64 |
Whooping Cough | 18 | 16 | 27 | 25 | 27 | 18 | 33 | 30 | 40 | 42 | 57 | 84 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 427 | 40 |
Pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 27 | 18 | 125 | 33 |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 3 |
Scabies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 12 | - |
Pood Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | _ | _ | 1 | - | 4 | - | |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | - | _ | _ | _ | - | 5 | 3 | |
Meningococcal Infection | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 4 | |
Acute Encephalitis -Infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Post Infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 |
Non paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 3 | - | - | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | 112 | 20 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Tuberculosis Pulmonary | - | - | 4 | - | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 31 | 37 | 15 | 5 | 30 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 192 | - | |
Tuberculosis, Other forms | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | -• | - | - | 1 | - | » | - | 2 | 2 | _ | 1 | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | |
Total | 51 | 57 | 120 | 98 | 134 | 122 | 178 | 160 | 222 | 198 | 36 2 | 394 | 28 | 27 | 11 | 17 | 47 | 66 | 31 | 13 | 54 | 30 | 40 | 23 | 2483 | 286 |