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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Table of Cases of Infectious Diseases coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1959 in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages
| Disease | Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 - 9 | 10- 14 | 15 - 19 | 20 - 34 | 35 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 & up | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 34 | 39 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 122 |
| Measles | 17 | 14 | 35 | 53 | 71 | 54 | 68 | 52 | 101 | 65 | 214 | 184 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 949 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 |
| Pneumonia | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | 3 | - | 3 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 70 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 6 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | -1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 18 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis Infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |||
| Post-infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paralytic | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Dysentery | 7 | - | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 46 | 36 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 251 |
| Scabies | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 20 |
| Tuberculosis Respiratory | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 71 | |
| Meninges & C.N.S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Other | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| Total | 29 | 16 | 43 | 68 | 91 | 70 | 88 | 69 | 125 | 76 | 307 | 272 | 40 | 38 | 12 | 9 | 30 | 44 | 15 | 13 | 34 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 1550 |