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Croydon 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE VI.Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1908and ten preceding Years.

TABLE VI.

Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1908

and ten preceding Years.

Disease.1908.1907.1906.1905.1904.1903.1902.1901.1900.1899.1898.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Notifiable.Small Pox........4......3..1425115..1..........
Scarlet Fever5345661114258416112918215229563911432535033019
Diphtheria and (1) Memb.Croup4053728640304402662531224259182852944823187251271716219
(2) Erysipelas6057346827856827941025794716..7..6
Puerperal Fever105749211593185931287465
Enteric Fever5251913453442153255995711569568649
Simple Continued Fever....................2..5......4..1121
Non-notifiable.Diarrhœa and Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis..52..30..142..52..95..37..73..129..88..195..200
Enteritis..23..26..61..22..35..14..17..37..25..1..6
Measles..92..8..37..24..62..26..30..21..20..18..32
Whooping Cough..29..32..28..31..15..58..31..25..56..40..36
Influenza..52..31..20..30..27..28..58..37..100..91..39
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and .. Pleurisy..282..316..218..302..314..247..341..283..367..309..232
Phthisis..150..160..173..162..142..151..112..123..135..154..133

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(1) Notifiable since May, 1897. (2) Notifiable since January, 1900.
In the above Table deaths of Non-residents occurring at the Workhouse, Workhouse Infirmary, Borough Hospital,
General Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital, Purley Cottage Hospital, and "89, Central Hill" (Servants
Reformatory), are excluded. Prior to 1903 correction was only made for the first three institutions.