London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Hackney 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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| Disease | Patients | Admitted to hospital | Deaths | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - Years | ||||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | ||||
| Acute Encephalitis, infective | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | |
| Acute Encephalitis, post-infectious | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | -- | - | - | 2 | - | |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | 6 | - | |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 60 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | - | 7 | 5 | 17 | 12 | 39 | 3 | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis, paralytic | 8 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 7 | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis, non-paralytic | 7 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 7 | |||
| Dysentery | 134 | 9 | 23 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 32 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 56 | |
| Erysipelas | 43 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 11 | 22 | 6 | 21 | - | |
| Pood Poisoning | 7 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Measles | 1,748 | 53 | 156 | 182 | 215 | 202 | 899 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 208 | 1 |
| Meningococcal infection | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 20 | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | - | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 148 | - | - | - | - | 17 | 114 | 17 | - | - | 146 | ||||
| Scabies | 19 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Scarlet Fever | 392 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 45 | 257 | 32 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 125 | - | ||
| Whooping Cough | 230 | 23 | 25 | 32 | 23 | 22 | 97 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 10 | 1 | |
| Total | 2, 835 | 108 | 213 | 265 | 275 | 283 | 1,303 | 70 | 43 | 159 | 45 | 45 | 26 | 658 | 6 |
Details of the notifications of infectious and contagious diseases during the years 1946 to 1952 appear in Appendix
on page 6.
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