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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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INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS IN AGE GROUPS, ADMISSIONS TO HOSPITALS, AND DEATHS - 1956
| 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 | 190 | 11 | 13 | 28 | 20 | 18 | 54 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 7 | - | 37 | - |
| Encephalitis, post infectious | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Erysipelas | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 8 | - |
| Pood Poisoning | 32 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | . | - |
| Measles | 456 | 19 | 42 | 61 | 61 | 75 | 188 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 27 | - |
| Meningococcal infection | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 8 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | ||
| Pneumonia; Acute Primary | 44 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 18 | 6 |
| Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Poliomyelitis, Non paralytic | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 53 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 39 | 4 | - | - | 51 | - |
| Scabies | 41 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 8 | 2 | - | 13 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 130 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 30 | 71 | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 37 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Whooping Cough | 395 | 43 | 28 | 40 | 52 | 48 | 165 | 13 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 23 | - |
| Totals | 1,394 | 82 | 91 | 137 | 151 | 172 | 506 | 43 | 26 | 91 | 34 | 42 | 19 | 228 | 6 |