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Croydon 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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TABLE II.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1920.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in whole District.Total Casks notified in each Locality.Total Cases Removed to Hospitals or Sanatoria.
At all Ages.At A\;es—Years.Unrecorded ages-West.North.Central.East.South.South Norwood.Upper Norwood.Thornton Heath.Institution Cases which could not he distributed.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 6565 & upw d.
Small-pox......................................
Cholera (C) Plague (P)......................................
Diphtheria558612333456327....13371435766130949..499
Erysipelas741161028243110124101014410..8
Scarlet Fever63861423906337......1731084156361711340..528
Typhus Fever......................................
Enteric Fever12....354......12....23..4..7
Relapsing Fever......................................
Puerperal Fever14......311......44..l122....4
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis3111..........1....1......1..2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3939..............1923l48..2..3
Pulmonary Tuberculosis396..4551001704391588354435289215554187
Other forms of Tuberculosis84..11491092..3282114320212225
Pneumonia9818169331912..181671762734....
Malaria21......713..1..84....62..1....
Dysentery4......2......2..2..1..1........
Encephalitis lethargica41..1..1......1....1..2........
Posterior basic meningitis......................................
Anterio poliomylitis1..1..........................1....
Totals1946552918552653389625214842581531841624724817961263

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