[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough].

  • Battersea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1958]
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/54 (page 16)
    16 Analysis of Cases (after Correction of Diagnosis) of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1957. Notifiable Disease Cases Notified in Battersea, at Ages (Years) Total 0— 1— 2— 3— 4— 5— 10- 15— 25— 45— 65 & over Diphtheria — — — — — — — — — — — — Dysentery 32 3 1 3 3 2 8 1 2 5 3 1 Encephalitis (acute):— Infective 1 — — — — — — 1 — — — — Post-infectious — — — — — — — — — — — — Enteric (typhoid or para typhoid) fever 1 — — — — — — — — — 1 — Erysipelas 6 — — — — — — — — 3 3 — Food poisoning 26 1 — 1 1 — 5 3 5 7 2 1 Malaria — — — — — — — — — — — — Measles 1402 59 147 161 172 205 635 16 3 4 — — Membranous croup — — — — — — — — — — — — Meningococcal infection. 4 1 2 — — — — — — — 1 — Ophthalmia neonatorum 1 1 —* Pneumonia, acute primary 33 — 2 — 1 2 1 1 1 4 9 12 Pneumonia,acute influenza] 35 1 — — — 1 3 — 3 9 14 4 Poliomyelitis (acute):— Paralytic 3 — — — — 1 — 1 — 1 — — Non-paralytic 6 — — — — — 3 2 1 — — — Puerperal pyrexia 3 — — — — — — — 2 1 — — Scabies 3 — — — — — — 1 2 — — — Scarlet fever 57 — 3 2 2 8 36 4 2 — — — Smallpox — — — — — — — — — — — —- Tuberculosis: — 10 Pulmonary 89 1 — — 1 — 1 — 22 33 21 Non-pulmonary 11 1 — — 1 — — 1 1 5 1 1 Whooping cough 118 18 16 16 14 10 39 3 2 — — — Totals 1831 86 171 183 195 229 731 34 46 72 55 29 TUBERCULOSIS During the year 1957 there were 100 cases of tuberculosis (all forms) notified in Battersea as compared with 108 in 1956, 129 in 1955. 140 in 1954, 165 in 1953 and 188 in 1952. In addition 70 cases were reported or otherwise came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, making a total of 170 cases for the year. The case rate per 100,000 population was 152.1. The tables on page 18 give details in age groups of the 170 cases- Deaths from Tuberculosis. During 1957 deaths from tuberculosis registered as belonging to the Borough of Battersea numbered 11, of which 10 were due to pulmonary tuberculosis, and 1 to another form of the disease. The death rate per 100,000 of the population during the 50 years ended 1950 in quinquennial averages and the years 1951, 1952, 1953. 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1957 are given in the following table:—