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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Infective Diseases. 19
TABLE VII.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total. | No. of CASES of Infective 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 | 386 | 307 | 79 | 8 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 32 | 153 | 42 | 29 | 36 | 9 | 5 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 638 | 513 | 125 | 8 | 17 | 35 | 35 | 58 | 253 | 107 | 45 | 62 | 10 | 7 | 1 |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 12 | 5 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 36 | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 32 | 4 | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 132 | 11 | 121 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 3 | 5 | 1 | 26 | 21 | 59 | 14 |
| Pneumonia:— | |||||||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 121 | 8 | 113 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 17 | 38 | 36 |
| Acute Primary | 364 | 120 | 244 | 18 | 25 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 29 | 11 | 8 | 33 | 31 | 110 | 62 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Polio-myelitis | 10 | 9 | 1 | — | — | 3 | — | — | 5 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Malaria | 7 | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 3 | — |
| Dysentery | 32 | 15 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 9 | 2 | 7 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 5 | — | 1 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 24 | 24 | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 599 | 76 | 523 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 30 | 31 | 53 | 253 | 88 | 107 | 22 |
| Total | 2383 | 1096 | 1287 | 64 | 60 | 87 | 90 | 108 | 481 | 206 | 142 | 485 | 186 | 339 | 135 |