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Wandsworth 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1954
TABLE V
| notifiable diseases | total cases of infective diseases occurring in each ward | Whole Borough | Deaths | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| putney | central | clapham | streatham | |||||||||||||||||||
| Putney | Thamesfield | Fairfield | West Hill | Southfield | Earlsfield | Springfield | Tooting | Graveney | Bedford | Larkhall | Clapham North | Clapham Park | Thornton | Balham | Streatham Hill | St. Leonards | Streatham Common | Streatham South | Furzedown | |||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 20 | 13 | 12 | 58 | 24 | 34 | 36 | 18 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 338 | - |
| Measles | 15 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 29 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 58 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 303 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 21 | 8 | 17 | 36 | 18 | 19 | 39 | 40 | 28 | 43 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 21 | 31 | 21 | 33 | 431 | - |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Malaria | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Dysentery | 8 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 156 | - |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 58 | 1 | |
| Scabies | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 42 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | 8 | 64 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | 138 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 3 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 7 | - |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia:— | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 98 | 14 |
| Acute Primary | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 171 | 34 |
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 91 | 39 | 35 | 46 | 47 | 39 | 29 | 41 | 34 | 29 | 25 | 36 | 43 | 41 | 41 | 26 | 23 | 28 | 19 | 24 | 738 | 68 |
| Food Poisoning | 13 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 124 | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 184 | 87 | 124 | 199 | 142 | 189 | 150 | 193 | 131 | 161 | 95 | 91 | 182 | 149 | 111 | 78 | 84 | 101 | 76 | 99 | 2,626 | 120 |