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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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POLIOMYELITIS (Infantile paralysis). One person was admitted to hospital
suspected to be suffering from poliomyelitis, but the diagnosis was not
confirmed.
POLIOMYELITIS Notifications and deaths of cases in Hackney since 1954:-
| Year | Type | Under 1 year | 1-4 years | 5-14 years | 15-19 years | 20 years and over | Totals | Total cases | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Paralytic | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 7 | |||
| Non-paralytic | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| 1955 | Paralytic | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 35 | |
| Non-paralytic | 12 | 1 | 2 | 15 | |||||
| 1956 | Paralytic | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Non-paralytic | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 1957 | Paralytic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | ||
| Non-parailytic | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| 1958 | Paralytic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Non-paralytic | |||||||||
| 1959 | Paralytic | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | |
| Non-paralytic | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 1960 | Paralytic | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | |
| Non-paralytic | |||||||||
| 1961 | Paralytic | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | ||||
| Non-paralytic | - | - | |||||||
| 1962 | Paralytic | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Non-paralytic | |||||||||
| 1963 | Paralytic | - | - | - | |||||
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - |
PUERPERAL PYREXIA Of a total of 39 cases of puerperal Pyrexia 38 were
associated with hospital confinements and one case with a home confinement
only 28 of the total number of cases related to Hackney residents
SCARLET FEVER Notifications of this disease numbered 56 as compared
with 70 in the previous year and 92 in 1961 8 cases were admitted to
hospital
| Year | Total cases | Cases notified in age groups | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 - 2 | 2 - 3 | 3 - 4 | 4-5 | 5- 10 | 10 - 15 | 15 - 20 | 20 - 35 | 35 - 45 | 45 - 65 | 65 and upwards | ||||
| 1954 | 130 | - | 3 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 83 | 11 | 1 | - | 49 | - | |||
| 1955 | 81 | - | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 47 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 26 | |||
| 1956 | 130 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 30 | 71 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 37 | |
| 1957 | 90 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 43 | 11 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 31 | 1 |
| 1958 | 179 | - | 2 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 116 | 23 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 29 | |
| 1959 | 166 | - | 2 | 11 | 14 | 19 | 81 | 34 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 29 | |
| 1960 | 128 | - | 6 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 58 | 16 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 30 | |
| 1961 | 92 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 19 | |
| 1962 | 70 | - | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 36 | 6 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 15 | - |
| 1963 | 56 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||||