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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INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS IN AGE GROUPS, ADMISSIONS
TO HOSPITALS, AND DEATHS
Disease | At all ages | Under 1 year | 1 to 2 years | 2 to 3 years | 3 to 4 years | 4 to 5 years | 5 to 10 years | 10 to 15 years | 15 to 20 years | 20 to 35 years | 35 to 45 years | 45 to 65 years | 65 and upwards | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dysentery | 340 | 15 | 31 | 29 | 21 | 32 | 136 | 22 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 41 | - |
Encephalitis. Infective | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |
Erysipelas | 26 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 5 | - |
Pood Poisoning | 13 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | 5 | - |
Malaria | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 799 | 11 | 56 | 83 | 58 | 85 | 498 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 33 | - |
Meningococcal infection | 4 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 2 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary | 75 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 24 | 13 | 51 | 5 |
Pneumonia Acute Influenzal | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - |
Poliomyelitis, Non-Paralytic | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 125 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 96 | 6 | - | - | 124 | - |
Scabies | 18 | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | - | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 130 | - | 3 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 83 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 49 | - |
Whooping Cough | 220 | 21 | 15 | 23 | 31 | 35 | 88 | 6 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 11 | - |
Totals | 1,769 | 58 | 108 | 148 | 125 | 164 | 815 | 52 | 40 | 150 | 45 | 41 | 23 | 338 | 8 |