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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 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Details of infectious and contagious diseases notified under the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1936, (confirmed diagnoses) in 1967 were as follows:-
| Anthrax | Nil | Membranous croup | Nil |
| Cholera | Nil | Meningococcal infection | 2 |
| Diphtheria | Nil | Ophthalmia neonatorum | 6 |
| Dysentery | 122 | Plague | Nil |
| Encephalitis | Nil | Pneumonia | 19 |
| Enteric (Typhoid or para-typhoid) fever | 3 | Poliomyelitis | Nil |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 101 | ||
| Erysipelas | 13 | Scarlet fever | 48 |
| Food Poisoning | 59 | Smallpox | Nil |
| Malaria | 2 | Tuberculosis | 113 |
| Measles | 1.417 | Typhus fever | Nil |
| Whooping cough | 153 |
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
There was a total of 101 cases notified to the Department; 99 were associated
with hospital confinements and 2 cases with home confinements.
TUBERCULOSIS
Apart from the 113 primary notifications of tuberculosis 64 non-primary
notifications were received. These latter are cases that have either been previously
notified in another area and have now transferred into Hackney or been
notified posthumously.
Details of the notified cases of pulmonary tuberculosis are as follows:-
| Age Groups | Primary Notifications | Non-Primary Notifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| 0-5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 5-15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 15-25 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 25-55 | 26 | 24 | 19 | 14 |
| 55 and over | 20 | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| Age unknown | - | 1 | - | - |
| Totals | 56 | 37 | 35 | 29 |
In addition 20 primary notifications and 2 non-primary notifications of
non-pulmonary tuberculosis were received.
The number on the Department's tuberculosis register at the beginning of
the year was 2,425. After adding primary notifications and transfers in, and
subtracting deaths, transfers out and recovered cases etc., the number on the
register fell to 2,341 by the end of the year.
The Department is able to provide a number of services for the tuberculous
and a summary of the help available is set out overleaf.