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 Croydon]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1917.
Notifiable Disease. | Casks notified in whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | Total Cases Removed to Hospitals or Sanatoria. | ||||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Unrecorded ages- | West. | North. | Central. | East. | South. | South Norwood. | Upper Norwood. | Thornton Heath. | Institution cases which could not be distributed. | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 & upwd. | |||||||||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 2944 | 58 | 986 | 1423 | 146 | 90 | 9 | 1 | 231 | 599 | 480 | 188 | 309 | 164 | 470 | 137 | 597 | .. | 21 |
German Measles | 2439 | 30 | 281 | 1341 | 397 | 273 | 27 | 1 | 89 | 352 | 264 | 111 | 179 | 186 | 672 | 138 | 237 | .. | 13 |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 191 | .. | 43 | 111 | 23 | 11 | 3 | .. | .. | 27 | 19 | 4 | 16 | 37 | 26 | 56 | 6 | .. | 176 |
Erysipelas | 56 | .. | 3 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 7 | .. | 13 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 8 | .. | 11 |
Scarlet fever | 191 | 1 | 34 | 128 | 17 | 10 | 1 | .. | .. | 28 | 28 | 14 | 32 | 13 | 31 | 15 | 30 | .. | 166 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric fever | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 5 |
Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 18 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 6 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 14 |
Poliomvelitis | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 21 | 21 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 3 | •• | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. |
Opthalmia Neonatorum | 397 | .. | 2 | 22 | 80 | 216 | 66 | 11 | .. | 86 | 38 | 24 | 46 | 41 | 78 | 16 | 68 | .. | 142 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 88 | 2 | 24 | 33 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 | •• | 32 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 14 | .. | 36 |
Totals | 6355 | 113 | 1379 3068 | 685 | 635 | 134 | 21 | 320 | 1151 857 | 352 | 904 | 456 | 1301 | 369 | 965 | 587 |
The Borough (Fever) Isolation Hospital is situated in the West Ward.
The Croydon and Wimbledon (Smallpox) Isolation Hospital is at North Cheam.