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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 1960
[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 - 1960
| 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 y ears | 10 to 15 y ears | 15 to 20 years | 20 to 35 years | 35 to 45 years | 45 to 65 years | 65 and upwards | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dysentery | 228 | 16 | 33 | 22 | 12 | 14 | 61 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 43 | - |
| Encephalitis, Infective | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
| Encephalitis, Post Infectious | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Erysipelas | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | - |
| Pood Poisoning | 33 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | - | 6 | 1 | 12 | - |
| Measles | 468 | 23 | 67 | 61 | 56 | 47 | 198 | 6 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | 28 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia, Acute Primary | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 8 |
| Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 132 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 101 | 8 | - | - | 132 | - |
| Scabies | 25 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | - | 2 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 128 | - | 6 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 58 | 16 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 30 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 326 | 42 | 62 | 41 | 30 | 29 | 94 | 23 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 45 | - |
| Totals | 1, 401 | 91 | 170 | 138 | 115 | 111 | 419 | 67 | 46 | 158 | 27 | 38 | 21 | 330 | 9 |