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 Hackney]
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Table showing Notifications of Infectious Disease received in 1945 in Electoral Wards.
| Disease | Eleotoral Wards. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridley | Down | Town Hall | Graham | Dalston | Culford | Stamford | Springfield | Maury | Southwold | Leaside | Marsh | Wiok | Chatham | Park | Tudor | |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | .. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Enteric Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Erysipelas | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5 | .. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. |
| Malaria | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Measles | 102 | 112 | 34 | 50 | 24 | 35 | 83 | 103 | 80 | 79 | 13 | 90 | 66 | 65 | 52 | 42 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. |
| Poliomyelitis | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 5 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 8 | 7 | .. | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | .. |
| Scabies | 73 | 90 | 28 | 58 | 47 | 33 | 74 | 83 | 67 | 73 | 56 | 112 | 67 | 61 | 49 | 50 |
| Scarlet Fever | 8 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 26 | 17 | 25 | 13 | 25 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 16 |
| Whooping Cough | 10 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 13 | 19 | 29 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 6 |
| Totals | 211 | 271 | 102 | 141 | 96 | 90 | 216 | 264 | 190 | 227 | 182 | 276 | 194 | 173 | 144 | 128 |
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from this Table.
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