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Croydon 1920

[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 1920 and ten preceding Years.

TABLE V.

Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1920 and ten preceding Years.

Disease.1920.1919.1918.1917.1916.1915.1914.1913.1912.1911.1910.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.CasesDea hs.Cases.Deaths.Cases. |Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
NotificableCerebro-Spinal Meningitis334..25118..291249....................
Poliomyelitis112......1..2..41..................
Small Pox....91....................................
Scarlet Fever638760311414619122974414574854703476246877597
Diphtheria and (i) Memb.Croup5582642936179219193124195142261845116767255143726721
(2) Erysipelas7436124435635218239671076846795691
Puerperal Fever14643433171125936410312481
Enteric Fever1245..1526..13..22320532632724726..
Simple Continued Fever............................................
Tuberculosis (3)480195440217378204397157326223550238503192519202312140240165130135
Non-notificableMeasles (4)..22501310572294429462....108..8..58..31..29..31
Rubella....932439..636..........................
Diarrhoea and Enteritis..36..24..48..41..50..62..67..85..58..147..51
Whooping Cough..2..1..10..9..27..12..24..23..13..38..20
Influenza..43..139..478..20..46..45..15..26..18..14..25
Bronchitis, *Pneumonia, and..335 s185†353‡..362..302..329..399..313..297..250..280..251

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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) Not now notifiable.
Notifiable, i.e., acute primary pneumonia and influenzal pneumonia only. † Pneumonia only. ‡ 136 Pneumonia.
§ Bronchitis 163, Broncho-Pneumonia 69, Pneumonia 91, Pleurisy 12=335.
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.