Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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NOTIFIABLE DISEASES | NO. OF NOTIFIED CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN AGE GROUPS | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 1 year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-24 | 45-64 | 65 and over | Totals | |
Acute encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Acute meningitis | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Acute poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª | - |
Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª | ¡ª | ¡ª |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª | ¡ª | ¡ª |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª | ¡ª | ¡ª |
Dysentery | 5 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 51 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 4 | - | 133 |
Food poisoning | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 28 |
Infective jaundice | - | - | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 2 | |
Leprosy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 56 |
Leptospirosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª |
Measles | 35 | 74 | 102 | 90 | 101 | 218 | 18 | 13 | 6 | - | - | ¡ª |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 658 |
Paratyphoid fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª |
Relapsing fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª | ¡ª |
Scarlet fever | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 39 | 11 | 12 | 2 | - | - | 93 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tetanus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª |
Tuberculosis | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 41 | 39 | -- | ¡ª |
Typhoid fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ö | - | - | 14 | 127 |
Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | l | - | ¡ª | ¡ª | 1 |
Whooping cough | 9 | 18 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 36 | 9 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - |
Yellow fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 131 |
Erysipelas* | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | ¡ª | ¡ª |
Pneumonia, acute influenzal* | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | ¡ª | 8 14 |
Pneumonia, acute primary* | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 13 | 9 | |
Puerperal pyrexia* | - | - | - | - | - | - | ¡ª | 1 | 3 | - | 5 | 22 4 |
Totals | 58 | 111 | 135 | 137 | 150 | 356 | 58 | 81 | 93 | 70 | 31 | 1,280 |
*These diseases ceased to be notifiable on 1st October 1968.