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

  • Stepney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1951?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 11. NOTIFIABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1950 DISEASES. -1 .1- 2- 3- Total Cases Notified In Age Groups. 35- 45- 65- Toal Notifications Corrected Total Cases admitted to Hospital No. of Deaths[/##] 4- 5- 10- 15- 20- Diphtheria 1 - - - 1 1 2 - 1 - 1 - 6 3 6 - Dysentery 1 3 4 2 4 7 1 - - - - 1 23 19 15 - Erysipelas - - - - - - 1 - - 4 8 4 17 17 1 - Food Poisoning — — — — — — — 1 3 2 4 — 10 10. 2 - Malaria - - — — — — — — 1 1 — — 2 2 2 - Measles 43 80 73 100 85 121 2 — — — 1 — 505 504 56 - Membranous Group 2 1 — - - - - - - - 3 2 3 - Meningoc.Infectior 2 2 - - - - - - - - - - 4 4 4 1 Ophth.Neonatorum 4 - - - - - - - - - - - 4 4 4 - Pneumonia 3 — 2 3 1 5 1 1 12 2 21 10 61 61 18 46 Ac .Poliomyelitis; Paralytic — 3 2 3 l l - - - - - - 10 9 10 1 Non-paralytic 1 2 - 2 - l 1 1 1 1 - - 10 9 9 - Puerperal Pyrexia — - — — — - - 1 12 1 — — 14 14 13 2 Scarlet Fever - 3 9 20 10 48 12 5 4 - - - 111 106 34 - VJhooping Cough 22 42 38 43 45 74 28 l 2 3 - - 298 292 39 - Tuberculosis - Pul. - 5 3 4 2 5 4 15 60 14 35 13 160 160 - 50 Non-Pul. - l 1 1 — 1 1 2 6 2 1 - 16 16 6 Scabies 1 - - - 1 4 — 2 39 11 7 2 67 67 — - TOTALS: 78 143 132 179 150 268 53 29 141 41 77 30 1321 1299 216 106 There were no notifications of Smallpox, Enteric Fever or Acute Encephalitis. + Deaths reported in 1950 do not necessarily refer to cases notified in that year. -58-