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Croydon 1917

[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.
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)......................................
Measles29445898614231469091231599480188309164470137597..21
German Measles243930281134139727327189352264111179186672138237..13
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)191..4311123113....27194163726566..176
Erysipelas56..34715207..1375831028..11
Scarlet fever19113412817101....2828143213311530..166
Typhus Fever......................................
Enteric fever6....1..32........12....3....5
Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C)......................................
Puerperal Fever3........3......21..............2
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis1815516......661..13..1..14
Poliomvelitis1..1................1............1
Pulmonary Tuberculosis2121..............63••13314....
Opthalmia Neonatorum397..222802166611..8638244641781668..142
Other forms of Tuberculosis882243314861••321131188114..36
Totals63551131379 3068685635134213201151 8573529044561301369965587

The Borough (Fever) Isolation Hospital is situated in the West Ward.
The Croydon and Wimbledon (Smallpox) Isolation Hospital is at North Cheam.