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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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occurred in the autumn in a member of the nursing staff of one of the
local hospitals.
POLIOMYELITIS (Infantile Paralysis). Some 25 persons were admitted to
hospital suspected of suffering from Poliomyelitis. The diagnosis was,
however, confirmed only in five cases, and two of these were of the nonparalytic
type and three of the paralytic type, The non-paralytic
cases were a man aged 22 years, and a girl aged 5½ years. Two of the
paralytic cases were a young married woman aged 28 years, and a girl
aged seven years; in the third paralytic case, a boy aged eight years,
there had been contact with the disease at a hop farm There was also
the paralytic case of a boy aged ten years, a resident of Hackney, who
developed the disease whilst at the hop farm referred to, and who was
notified to the local authority of the area in which the farm was
situated.
POLIOMYELITIS. Incidence and deaths in the Borough of Hackney since 1950: -
| Year | Type | 0-1 | -5 | -15 | -20 | over 20 | Totals | Total cases | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Paralytic | - | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 23 | |
| Non-paralytic | - | 3 | 5 | - | 2 | 10 | |||
| 1951 | Paralytic | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1952 | Paralytic | - | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | 8 | 15 | - |
| Non-paralytic | - | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 7 | - | ||
| 1953 | Paralytic | . | 5 | 2 | - | 3 | 10 | 13 | 1 |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | |||
| 1954 | Paralytic | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 4 | 7 | - |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | |||
| 1955 | Paralytic | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 35 | - |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | 12 | 1 | 2 | 15 | - | ||
| 1956 | Paralytic | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | 5 | - |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - |
PUERPERAL PYREXIA. In accordance with the Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations,
1951 and 1954, 53 notifications of Puerperal Pyrexia were
received. Of this number 51 were associated with hospital confinements
and two with home confinements, but only 28 of the total related to
residents of the borough.,
SCARLET FEVER, Notifications of this disease numbered 130 as compared
with 81 in the previous year, and 130 in 1954; 37 cases were admitted
to hospital.