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 1921.
Notifiable Disease. | Casks notified in whole District. | Uurecorded ages. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | Total Cases Removed to Hospitals or Sanatoria. | |||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages-Years. | 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) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | 488 | 2 | 55 | 335 | 56 | 29 | 6 | .. | .. | 71 | 62 | 19 | 52 | 55 | 130 | 22 | 72 | .. | 419 |
Erysipelas | 43 | 1 | .. | 4 | 5 | 15 | 13 | .. | .. | 13 | .. | 3 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 3 | .. | 7 | |
Scarlet Fever | 855 | 1 | 93 | 605 | 96 | 55 | 5 | .. | .. | 167 | 142 | 45 | 79 | |176 | 113 | 39 | 94 | .. | 711 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 10 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | .. | .. | '2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .. | 6 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .... | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 26 | 26 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 15 | .. | 2 | .. | 5 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 8 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 410 | .. | 5 | 40 | 110 | 208 | 52 | .. | .. | 89 | 41 | 39 | 45 | 27 | 80 | 34 | 58 | .. | 178 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 163 | 2 | 25 | 99 | 20 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | 44 | 17 | 17 | '20 | 13 | 23 | 9 | 12 | .. | 40 |
Pneumonia | 60 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 12 | .. | .. | 17 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | .. | .. |
Malaria | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Dysentery | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Encephalitis lethargica | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Posterior basic meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .... | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Anterior poliomyelitis | 6 | 1 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 2078 | 36 | 186 | 1100 | 305 | 344 | 93 | 14 | .. | 422 | 279 | 126 | 220 | 295 | 375 | 111 | 245 | 5 | 1380 |