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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASE IN ELECTORAL WARDS - 1961
| Disease | KenninghalI | Pembury | Kingsland | Albion | Town Hall | Triangle | Chatham | Kingsmead | Wick | Victoria | Northfield | Springfield | Northwold | Rectory | Leabridge | Bushmore | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dysentery | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 51 | |||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 3 | - | 17 | |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | 27 | |
| Measles | 116 | 357 | 163 | 122 | 156 | 192 | 154 | 148 | 127 | 188 | 186 | 235 | 201 | 153 | 116 | 97 | 2, 511 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 10 | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| Pneumonia, Acute Primary | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | 4 | 30 | |
| Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 6 | 18 |
| Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 31 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 129 |
| Scabies | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 3 | 27 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 92 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 34 |
| Totals | 147 | 180 | 177 | 139 | 174 | 217 | 183 | 169 | 185 | 221 | 226 | 261 | 222 | 177 | 141 | 133 | 2,952 |