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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CASES OF NOTIFIED INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 1940
Notifiable disease. | Cases notified in the whole district | Total cases notified in each Ward | Total cases removed to Borough Hospital and diagnosis confirmed. | Total Deaths in respect of the Soroush. | Sex Distribution 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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At all ages | at ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Bensham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Woodside | Fast | Addiscombe | White horse Mnr | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | South | Addington | |||||||||||
Under 1 yr. | 1 - 5 | 6 - 13 | 16 - 25 | 26-45 | 46-85 | 86 and up | |||||||||||||||||||||
M. | F. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (the Membranous Group) | 68 | 1 | 20 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 2 | - | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 62 | 4 | 26 | 42 |
Erysipelas | 45 | - | - | 2 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 18 | 27 |
Scarlet Fever | 157 | .. | 48 | 76 | 17 | 16 | - | - | 15 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 22 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 143 | - | 83 | 74 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever (includ ing Paratyphoid) | 19 | - | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 18 | - | 6 | 13 |
(Puerperal Pyrexia) | 44 | .. | .. | 1 | 18 | 25 | .. | .. | 1 | - | 31 | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | - | .. | 44 | ||
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | 41 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 16 | 21 | 20 | ||
(Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 14 | 14 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 3 | -_ | 1 | - | - | - | 6 | 8 |
Poliomyelitis &. Polio-Encephalitis | 2 | - | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | - | 2 |
Incephalitis Lethargica | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | ... | .... |
Dysentery | 8 | - | 5 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | - | 4 | 4 |
Malaria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ac. Primary and Ac. Inf. Pneumonia | 50 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | 5 | 4 | - | - | 22 | 28 | 22 |
Measles | 239 | 3 | 64 | 64 | 87 | 19 | 2 | - | 15 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 21 | 59 | 35 | 19 | 50 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 9 | - | 103 | 136 |
Whooping Cough . | 42 | 8 | 26 | - | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | 3 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 22 |
a Influenzal Pneumonia only. / accomodated at borough Hospital.