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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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INFECTIVE DISEASES 15
TABLE I
| 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 | 1 | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ |
| Scarlet Fever | 300 | 5 | 22 | 49 | 158 | 39 | 19 | 7 | 1 | _ |
| Measles | 1,602 | 98 | 258 | 395 | 802 | 42 | 5 | 2 | _ | _ |
| Whooping Cough | 126 | 18 | 26 | 29 | 49 | 4 | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 6 | — | _ | _ | 2 | _ | 2 | 2 | _ | _ |
| Malaria | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | |
| Dysentery | 341 | 7 | 27 | 30 | 108 | 68 | 24 | 61 | 16 | _ |
| Erysipelas | 39 | — | — | _ | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 11 |
| Scabies | 15 | — | _ | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | _ |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 114 | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | 45 | 69 | — | _ |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | _ | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Meningococcal Infection | 13 | 5 | 5 | _ | 1 | _ | _ | 2 | _ | _ |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 20 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | _ | _ |
| Acute Encephalitis | 7 | _ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | _ | 2 | _ | _ |
| Anthrax | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Pneumonia: | ||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 67 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 14 |
| Acute Primary | 132 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 20 | 31 | 28 |
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 589 | I | 5 | 8 | 20 | 15 | 79 | 309 | 122 | 30 |
| Food Poisoning | 232 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 53 | 40 | 48 | 24 |
| Total | 3,607 | 143 | 365 | 551 | 1,184 | 208 | 259 | 540 | 250 | 107 |