[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham].

  • Tottenham (England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1941]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -6- Table of cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1940 in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and ages. Notifiable Disease. Males Females Under one. 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-35 35-45 45-65 65 & over Total cases removed to Isolation Hospital by Council. Scarlet Fever 48 55 1 1 7 5 8 43 10 11 14 2 1 - 52 Diphtheria 15 13 - 1 3 4 2 4 5 6 2 1 - - 27 Pneumonia 60 27 2 1 1 1 2 4 3 7 18 7 27 14 - Erysipelas 14 18 1 - 1 - - - - - 3 9 15 3 10 Puerperal Pyrexia — 20 - - - - - - - - 17 3 - - 2 Dysentery 1 - - - - - - 1 - - - - - - Ophthalmia Neonatorum 2 - 2 - - - - - - - - - - - — Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 7 10 3 3 2 - - - - 4 3 2 - 6 Poliomyelitis - 1 - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - Typhoid 2 3 - - - - - - - 1 2 1 1 - 1 Food Poisoning 3 5 - 1 - - - - - - 5 1 1 - - Whooping Cough 12 9 3 5 1 4 1 7 - - - - - - 4 Measles 128 108 13 17 21 12 19 94 13 19 20 8 - - 36 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 116 62 - 1 - 1 - 2 4 30 74 21 41 4 - Other forms of Tuber culosis . 10 9 - - — - 3 2 2 1 9 1 1 - - Totals 418 340 25 30 36 27 35 157 38 79 167 54 89 21 138