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Croydon 1909

[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 1909and ten preceding Years.

TABLE VI.

Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1909

and ten preceding Years.

Disease.1909.1908.1907.1906.1905.1904.1903.1902.1901.1900.1899.
Cases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths,Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths,Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Notifiable.Small Pox............4......3..14251115..1......
Scarlet Fever7279534566111425841611291821522956391143253503
Diphtheria and (1) Memb.Croup3562440537i86403044026625312242591828529448231872512717
(2) Erysipelas9236057346827856827941025794716..7
Puerperal Fever1651057492115931859312874
Enteric Fever2135251913453442153255995711569568
Simple Continued Fever........................2..5......4..11
Non-notifiable.Diarrhoea and Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis..19..52..30..142..52..95..37..73..129..88..195
Enteritis..26..23..26..61..22..35..14..17..37..25..1
Measles..21..92..8..37..24..62..26..30..21..20..18
Whooping Cough..30..29..32..28..31..15..58..31..25..56..40
Influenza..59..52..31..20..30..27..28..58..37..10b..91
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy..323..282..316..218..302..314..247..341..283..367..309
Phthisis..152..150..160..173162..142..151..112..123..135..154

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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.