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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

Croydon 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE VI.I able showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1910and ten preceding Years.

TABLE VI.

I able showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1910

and ten preceding Years.

Disease.1910.1909.1908.1907.1906.1905.1904.1903.1902.1901.1900.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.DeathsCases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Notifiable.Small Pox................4......3..14251115..1..
Scarlet Fever7597727953456611142584161129189152295639114325
Diphtheria and (1) Memb.Croup2672135624405372864030440266253122425918985294482318725
(2) Erysipelas6919236057346827856827941025794716
Puerperal Fever81165105749211593718593128
Enteric Fever26..2135251913453442153255995711569
Simple Continued Fever............................2..5......4..
Non-notifiable.Diarrhœa and Epidemic or Zymotic Enteritis..27..19..52..30..142..52..95..37..73..129..88
Enteritis..24..2623..26..61..22..35..14..17..37..25
Measles..31..21..92..8..37..24..62..96..30..21..20
Whooping Cough20..30..29..32..28..31..15..58..31..25..56
Influenza..25..59..52..31..20..30..27..28..58..37..106
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and . Pleurisy..251..323..282..316..218..302..314..247..341..983..367
\Phthisis..135..152..150..160..173..162..142..151..112..123..135

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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, Nor wood 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.