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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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| Disease | Kenninghall | Pern bury | Kingsland | Albion | Town Hall | Triangl e | Chatham | Kingsmead | Wick | Victoria | Northfield | Springfield | NorthwoId | Rectory | Leabridge | Rushmore | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pysentery | 15 | 21 | 13 | 32 | 21 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 19 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 22 | 258 |
| Encephalitis,Infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Encephalitis, Post Infectious | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 11 |
| flood Poisoning | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 57 |
| Measles | 19 | 42 | 122 | 65 | 48 | 52 | 36 | 62 | 22 | 40 | 70 | 66 | 39 | 13 | 38 | 86 | 820 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 13 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 21 |
| Pneumonia,, Acute Primary | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 39 |
| Pneumonia. Acute Influenzal | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23 | |||
| Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 21 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 39 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 121 |
| Scabies | 1 | 7 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 39 |
| Scarlet Fever | 6 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 179 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 6 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 79 |
| Totals | 92 | 102 | 156 | 128 | 98 | 95 | 100 | 104 | 83 | 87 | 122 | 108 | 91 | 57 | 91 | 142 | 1,656 |