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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
TABLE X.
Notifiable Diseases. | Total. | No. of CASES of Infectious Diseases grouped in Age Periods. | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 15 | 15 and upwards | Under 1 | 1—2 | 2—3 | 3—4 | 4 5 | 5—10 | 10—15 | 15—20 | 20—35 | 35—45 | 45—65 | 65 and upwards | ||
Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | 709 | 584 | 125 | 3 | 17 | 30 | 51 | 62 | 295 | 126 | 42 | 61 | 15 | 6 | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 816 | 685 | 131 | 5 | 16 | 29 | 48 | 72 | 383 | 132 | 58 | 51 | 16 | 5 | 1 |
Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 32 | 9 | 23 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 4 | - |
Puerperal Fever | 15 | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 12 | 2 | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 42 | - | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 33 | 7 | - | - |
Erysipelas | 122 | - | 109 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 54 | 21 |
Whooping Cough | 1829 | 1801 | 28 | 165 | 161 | 204 | 208 | 250 | 772 | 41 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
Pneumonia:— Acute Influenzal | 138 | 16 | 122 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 42 | 28 |
Acute Primary | 543 | 215 | 328 | 37 | 47 | 25 | 11 | 15 | 66 | 14 | 33 | 72 | 61 | 99 | 63 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Polio-myelitis | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 11 | 1 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Malaria | 9 | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 4 | - | - |
Dysentery | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Total | 4280 | 3336 | 944 | 220 | 243 | 291 | 322 | 403 | 1533 | 324 | 162 | 290 | 161 | 213 | 118 |