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 Heston and Isleworth]
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TABLE V
INFECTIOUS DISEASES—1951—AGE DISTRIBUTION
Disease | Total | Under l yr. | l yr. | 2 yrs. | 3 yrs. | 4 yrs. | 5-9 yrs. | 10-14 yrs. | 15-19 yrs. | 20-34 yrs. | 35-44 yrs. | 45-64 yrs. | 65 yrs. + | Cases admitted to hospital |
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Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
Para-Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 67 | - | - | - | 5 | 17 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 26 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | - | - | - | 13 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Acute Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
Cerbro-spinal Fever | 5 | 3 | 1 | -- | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
Pneumonia | 59 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 27 |
Undulant Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 77 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 25 |
Measles | 790 | 21 | 70 | 106 | 147 | 148 | 272 | 7 | 9 | 10 | - | - | - | 28 |
Whooping Cough | 220 | 27 | 17 | 28 | 29 | 35 | 72 | 12 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 10 |
Food Poisoning | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Tuberculosis :— Pulmonary | 163 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 17 | 73 | 21 | 36 | 7 | - |
Non-pulmonary | 22 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | - | 2 | 1 | - |