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Croydon 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE V.Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1919and ten preceding Years.

TABLE V.

Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1919

and ten preceding Years.

Disease.1919.1918.1917.191G.1915.1914.1918.1912.1911.1910.1909.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.CasesDeaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis4..25118..291249........................
Poliomyelitis2......1..2..41........................
Notifiable.Small Pox91..........................................
Scarlet Fever603114146191229744145748547034762468775977279
Diphtheria and (i) Memb.Croup4293617921919312419514226184511676725514372672135624
(2) Erysipelas6124435635218239671076846795691923
Puerperal Fever43433171125936410312481165
Enteric Fever5..1526..13..22320532632724726..213
Simple Continued Fever..........................................
Tuberculosis (3)440217378204397157326223550238503192519202312140240165130135139152
Measles (4)501310572294429462....108..8..58..31..29..31..21
Rubella93..2439..636............................
Non-notifiableDiarrhoea and Enteritis..24..48..41..50..62..67..85..58..147..51..45
Whooping Cough..1..10..9..27..12..24..23..13..38..20..30
Influenza..139..478..20..46..45..15..26..18..14..25..59
Bronchitis, 1Pneumonia, and Pleurisy185♦353ÙÀ..362..302..329..399..313..297..250..280..251..323

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(1) Notifiable since May, 1897. (2) Notifiable since January, 1900. (3) Voluntary Notification, 1903-09 Poor Law Cases, Compulsorily
Notifiable since 1st Jan., 1909. Cases Treated in Hospital, Compulsorily Notifiable since 1st May, 1911. All cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
notifiable since 1st January, 1912. All forms of Tuberculosis notifiable since 1st February, 1913. (4) Notifiable since January 1st. 1916.
* Notifiable, i.e., acute primary pneumonia and influenzal pneumonia only. t Pneumonia only. ♣136 Pneumonia.
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 99, Central Hill (Servants
Reformatory), are excluded. Prior to 1903 correction was only made for the first three institutions.