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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 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: POLIOMYELITIS. Incidence and deaths in the Borough of Hackney in the post-waryears:-

POLIOMYELITIS. Incidence and deaths in the Borough of Hackney in the post-war

years:-

YearType0-1-5-15- 20over 20TotalsDeathsTotal cases
1946Paralytic-------Nil
Non-paralytic--------
1947Paralytic---112141
Non-paralytic29166639-
1948Paralytic-------6
Non-paralytic-32-16-
1949Paralytic-21--3138
Non-paralytic22281235-
1950Paralytic-452213223
Non-paralytic-35-210-
1951Paralytic--1-12-2
Non-paralytic-------
1952Paralytic-52-18-15
Non-paralytic-14-27-
1953Paralytic-52.310113
Non-paralytic----33-
1954Paralytic-22--4-7
Non-paralytic--2-13-
1955Paralytic1564420-35
Non-paralytic--121215-

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PUERPERAL PYREXIA. The Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations of 1951, require medical
practitioners to notify to the Medical Officer of Health "any febrile condition
occurring in a woman in whom a temperature of 100, 4°F. has occurred within
fourteen days after childbirth or miscarriage". Cases diagnosed in hospitals
within the Administrative County of London are notified to the Medical Officer
of Health for the district in which the hospital is situated.
Of the 90 notifications received in the department, only 40 related to
residents of the borough, and the cases occurred as follows:-
Hosnital confinements 85
Home confinements 5 (All subsequently removed to hospital)
In addition, copies of notifications were received relating to 28 cases of
Puerperal Pyrexia in Hackney women confined in hospitals outside the borough
The Puerperal Pyrexia (Amendment) Regulations, 1954, which came into operation
on 1st March, 1955, amend the 1951 Regulations by prescribing a new form of
certificate which requires the cause of the disease, if known, to be stated.

Table: SCARLET FEVER. Notifications of scarlet Fever numbered 81 as compared with 130 in the previous year and 291 in 1953; twenty-six cases were admitted to hospital for treatment. The cases occurred in the following age groups:-

SCARLET FEVER. Notifications of scarlet Fever numbered 81 as compared with 130 in the previous year and 291 in 1953; twenty-six cases were admitted to hospital for treatment. The cases occurred in the following age groups:-

Under 1 year1-2 years2-3 years3-4 years4-5 years5- 10 years10-15 years15- 20 years20-35 years35- 4 5 yearsTotal
-347647922181

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The illness was of a mild type and there were no deaths in notified cases.
It will be noticed, however, that in the Vital Statistics Section of the Report
one death classified under the heading of "Other Infective and Parasitic
Diseases" was associated with Scarlet Fever; the onset of the disease in this
particular case was some three years before death occurred.