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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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INFECTIVE DISEASES
TABLE IV
| notifiable diseases | no. of cases of infective diseases grouped in age-period | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Under 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65 and upwards | |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 338 | 5 | 23 | 57 | 201 | 35 | 15 | 2 | - | - |
| Measles | 303 | 20 | 55 | 76 | 145 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 431 | 29 | 92 | 122 | 159 | 14 | 9 | 6 | - | - |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Malaria | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Dysentery | 156 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 36 | 14 | 20 | 8 | 4 | - |
| Erysipelas | 58 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 7 | 27 | 15 | 3 |
| Scabies | 42 | - | - | - | 9 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 5 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 138 | - | - | - | - | - | 59 | 78 | 1 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 8 | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 7 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | ||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 98 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 19 | 43 | 28 |
| Acute Primary | 171 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 37 | 53 | 17 |
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 738 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 27 | 16 | 159 | 353 | 115 | 46 |
| Food Poisoning | 124 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 24 | 47 | 7 | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 2.626 | 82 | 228 | 328 | 603 | 124 | 330 | 593 | 243 | 95 |