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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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| Disease | Kenninghall | Pembury | Kingsland | Albion | Town Hall | Triangle | Chatham | Kingsnead | Wick | Victoria | Northfield | Springfield | Northwold | Rectory | Leabridge | Rushmore | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dysentery | 14 | 17 | 50 | 10 | 35 | 11 | 230 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 20 | 476 |
| *Encephalitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1. | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 13 |
| Measles | 72 | 53 | 85 | 68 | 42 | 104 | 136 | 83 | 44 | 127 | 157 | 123 | 108 | 66 | 82 | 36 | 1.386 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 6 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | - | 23 |
| Pneumonia, Acute Primary | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 |
| Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 10 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 4 | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 39 |
| Scabies | - | 8 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 31 |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 56 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 13 | 26 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 32 | 23 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 15 | 273 |
| Totals | 108 | 113 | 148 | 94 | 101 | 141 | 402 | 123 | 104 | 165 | 202 | 161 | 152 | 113 | 112 | 84 | 2.323 |
| *Posthumous notifications (Inward Transferable Death Returns). | |||||||||||||||||