Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 - 1961
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 years and over | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dysenteiy | 51 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | |
Erysipelas | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | - |
Food Poisoning | 27 | - | 3 | 6 | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | 9 | - |
Measles | 2,511 | 115 | 330 | 347 | 327 | 336 | 992 | 37 | 13 | 13 | 1 | - | 115 | 1 | |
Malaria | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary | 30 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 17 | 7 |
Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal | 18 | - | ' - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 129 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 91 | 20 | - | - | - | |
Scabies | 27 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Scarlet Fever | 92 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 19 | - |
Whooping Cough | 34 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
Totals | 2,952 | 133 | 351 | 379 | 346 | 364 | 1,055 | 57 | 44 | 135 | 42 | 25 | 21 | 334 | 9 |