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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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INFECTIVE DISEASES
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TABLE II
| 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 | |||
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 5 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 71 | 30 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 187 | - |
| Encephalitis, Acute | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 11 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 29 | - |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Measles | 72 | 47 | 69 | 97 | 63 | 38 | 40 | 93 | 79 | 68 | 64 | 48 | 24 | 49 | 71 | 26 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 1,032 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - |
| Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 15 | 2 |
| „ Acute Primary | -_ | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 65 | 23 |
| Poliomyelitis, Acute | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 25 | - |
| Scabies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 136 | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis-all forms | 10 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 165 | 25 |
| Typhoid Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 7 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 35 | 29 | 6 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 219 | - |
| Total | 100 | 70 | 112 | 148 | 103 | 148 | 155 | 153 | 109 | 126 | 108 | 84 | 53 | 104 | 121 | 44 | 49 | 43 | 34 | 45 | 1,909 | 50 |