London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Wandsworth 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Infective Diseases 11

TABLE V.

Notifiable Diseases.No. of CASES of Infective Diseases Grouped in age Periods.
TotalUnder 11—33—55—1010—1515—2020—3535—4545—6565 and upwards
Small-pox-----------
Diphtheria7-11-113---
Scarlet Fever485-4111327235128112
Measles29699676877512473692675-
Whooping Cough6114516019919131111--
Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever5-1---2-11-
Malaria1------1---
Dysentery6124221421934-
Erysipelas77---2111383121
Scabies52-24115511752
Puerperal Pyrexia23-----2156--
Ophthalmia Neonatorum88---------
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis101411--111-
Polio-myelitis.58-137185582--
Encephalitis Lethargica-----------
Anthrax-----------
Pneumonia:—
Acute Influenzal1883910173525254546
Acute Primary
Tuberculosis—All forms69419122618893109510826
Food Poisoning67221223259156
Total5316158101411451801111136466166216103