London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 1972

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE 7

TABLE 7

NUMBER OF NOTIFIED CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN WARDS
PUTNEYCENTRALBATTERSEA
DISEASERoehamptonPutneyThamesfieldWest HillSouthfieldFairfieldEarlsfieldSpringfieldTootingGraveneyBedfordFurzedownNorthcoteBalhamNightingaleSt JohnLatchmereSt Mary's ParkShaftesburyQueenstownTotals
Acuie encephalitis------------------1-1
Acute meningitis--31--1-1---1--2-1--10
Acute poliomyelitis---------------------
Anthrax---------------------
Cholera---------------------
Diphtheria---------------------
Dysentery-14957471313--7117---142
Food poisoning--453561-42-7425---149
Infective jaundice-1-234411312--1-23-735
Leprosy---------------------
Leptospirosis--------------------1
Malaria--1-------1--1----1-4
Measles161027242085830271781011534956572679568
Ophthalmia neonatorum----11-----------1-14
Paratyphoid fever---------------------
Plague---------------------
Relapsing fever---------------------
Scarlet fever-195----4-111--1142131
Smallpox---------------------
Tetanus---------------------
Tuberculosis1331221023115101513656832111
Typhoid fever---21---------------3
Typhus---------------------
Whooping cough----3---3---1--233-116
Yellow fever---------------------
Totals171651146401102836503026142630136575773392975