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 1948 in Electoral Wards.
| Disease | Electoral Wards. | Totals | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridley | Downs | Town Hall | Graham | Dalston | Culford | Stamford | Springfield | Maury | Southwold | Leaside | Marsh | Wick | Chatham | Park | Tudor | ||
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | .. | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 36 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 6 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 4 |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | .. | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 4 | 40 |
| Dysentery | 2 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26 |
| Enteric Fever | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
| Ervsipelas | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 35 |
| Measles | 137 | 104 | 78 | 115 | 64 | 52 | 97 | 152 | 67 | 120 | 166 | 190 | 99 | 70 | 131 | 94 | 1736 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 15 |
| Puerperal Fever | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 23 |
| Scabies | 2 | 20 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 27 | 6 | 12 | 25 | 11 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 208 |
| Scarlet Fever | 13 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 29 | 20 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 27 | 11 | 259 |
| Whooping Cough | 23 | 62 | 23 | 25 | 19 | 32 | 27 | 49 | 26 | 61 | 91 | 138 | 69 | 41 | 66 | 35 | 787 |
| Totals | 186 | 215 | 129 | 183 | 101 | 106 | 197 | 253 | 133 | 232 | 302 | 381 | 209 | 145 | 255 | 159 | 3186 |
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from this Table.
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