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 1949 in Electoral Wards.
Disease | Electoral Wards. | Totals | |||||||||||||||
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Ridley | Downs | Town Hall | Graham | Dalston | Culford | Stamford | Springfield | Maury | Southwold | Leaside | Marsh | Wick | Chatham | Park | Tudor | ||
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 9 |
Acute Primary Pneumonia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .. | 3 | .. | 43 |
Acute Polioencephalitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 3 | 7 | 35 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
Dysentery | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 |
Enteric Fever | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | .. | 12 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 24 |
Food Poisoning | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 9 |
Malaria | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Measles | 92 | 155 | 70 | 66 | 43 | 55 | 233 | 169 | 117 | 131 | 129 | 158 | 178 | 130 | 199 | 84 | 2009 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .. | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 28 |
Scabies | 9 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 128 |
Scarlet Fever | 9 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 32 | 14 | 18 | 26 | 30 | 13 | 18 | 27 | 14 | 267 |
Whooping Cough | 7 | 13 | 17 | 27 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 36 | 28 | 12 | 23 | 32 | 36 | 10 | 52 | 25 | 362 |
Totals | 128 | 205 | 107 | 119 | 69 | 83 | 299 | 275 | 183 | 181 | 202 | 245 | 238 | 172 | 309 | 150 | 2965 |
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from this Table.