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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
Carshalton 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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table 12.
MEASLES—WARD INCIDENCE AND MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION, 1950. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton.)
| 1950. | Ward. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helier North. | St. Helier South. | St. Helier West. | North-East | North-West. | Central. | South-East. | South-West. | Total. | |
| January | 21 | 27 | 10 | 71 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 136 |
| February | 12 | 49 | 9 | 37 | 21 | — | 3 | 2 | 133 |
| March | 4 | 12 | 12 | 40 | 19 | 2 | 6 | — | 95 |
| April | 5 | 5 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 7 | — | 52 |
| May | 2 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 56 |
| Tune | 2 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 6 | 41 |
| July | 1 | — | 3 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| August | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 |
| September | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 |
| October | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 14 | — | 17 |
| November | 1 | 1 | — | 15 | 6 | 27 | 40 | 24 | 114 |
| December | 7 | 4 | 1 | 67 | 19 | 23 | 19 | 45 | 185 |
| Totals | 56 | 100 | 71 | 244 | 78 | 62 | 137 | 93 | 841 |
| Monthly Mean | 4.66 | 8.33 | 5.91 | 20 33 | 6.50 | 5.16 | 11 41 | 7.75 | 70.08 |
| Case rate per 1,000 population ... | 6.49 | 14 22 | 8 49 | 26 0 | 10 7 | 10 26 | 17 7 | 13.9 | 13.77 |
Whooping Cough.
Pertussis was more prevalent in 1950, 384 cases being notified,
all but one residents of the district. Much the heaviest incidence
occurred during the last quarter of the year when a sharp rise in
the attack rate occurred in November and, like measles, continued
into 1951.
There was one death in a baby of four months.
In the last ten years or so investigations have been carried out
into the possibility of providing vaccine treatment for the prevention
or treatment of whooping cough. Until recently these researches have
not been very successful. More recently, however, field experiments
using a variety of different types of modern vaccines have been carried
out in several large centres of population in this country under the
auspices of the Medical Research Council and the results have been
the most promising to date. They do not yet show the same striking
effect of the present-day diphtheria prophylactics but the results of the
experiments are definitely significant and particularly more so in the
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