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 1919.
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 Ages—Years. | Unrecorded ages. | West. | North. | Central. | East. | South. | South Norwood. | Upper Norwood. | Thornton Heath. | Institution cases which could not be distributed. | |||||||||
At all Ages. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 & upw d. | ||||||||||||
Small-pox | 9 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles and German Measles | 501 | 8 | 164 | 811 | 10 | 6 | .. | .. | 2 | 124 | 133 | 29 | 37 | 25 | 60 | 20 | 73 | .. | 3 |
Diphtheria | 429 | 2 | 117 | 257 | 98 | 2? | .. | 1 | 70 | 32 | 15 | 34 | 131 | 95 | .. | 397 | |||
Erysipeas as | 61 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 25 | 7 | .. | 14 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 | .. | 4 |
Scaret Fever | 603 | o | 109 | 414 | 48 | 27 | .. | .. | .. | 86 | 76 | 39 | 117 | 33 | 141 | 55 | 56 | .. | 500 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 3 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 29 | 29 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 3 | 2 | .. | 2 | 6 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 390 | .. | 2 | 55 | 107 | 170 | 48 | 2 | 6 | 91 | 71 | 34 | 44 | 41 | 58 | 14 | 37 | .. | 197 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 50 | 1 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 1 | .. | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 7 | .. | 27 |
Pneumonia | 185 | 3 | 14 | '24 | 35 | 61 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 40 | 16 | 27 | 23 | 17 | 38 | 19 | 5 | .. | 6 |
Malaria | 74 | .. | .. | .. | 18 | 55 | 1 | .. | .. | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 12 | .. | .. |
Dysentery | 11 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Encephalitis lethargica. | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. |
Posterior basic meningitis | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
Anterio poliomylitis | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 2367 | 49 | 427 | 1089 | 262 | 390 | 113 | 22 | 15 | 491 | 366 | 168 | 277 | 263 | 434 | 139 | 229 | .. | 1151 |
The Borough (Fever) Isolation Hospital is situated in the West Ward.
The Croydon and Districts Smallpox Hospital is at North Cheam.