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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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CASES OF NOTIFIED INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1941.
| Notifiable cisease. | Cases notified in the whole district at ager - years | Total cgres notified in each Ward | Total cases removed to Borough Hospital and Diagnosis confirmed | Total Deaths in respect of the Borough. | Sex Distribution | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Bensham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Woodside | East | Aldiscombe | Whi tehorse Mar | ...................... Broad Green | Central | VJaddon | South | Mdington | |||||||||||||
| At all ages Under lyr. | 1-5 | 6-15 | 16 - 25 | 26 - 45 | 46 - 65 | 66 and up | |||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | — | - | - | — | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | 63 | - | 20 | 17 | 18 | 8 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 12 | - | 4 | 61 | 4 | 30 | 33 |
| Erysipelas | 37 | - | - | 1 | 2 | o O | 21 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | - | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 15 | - | 11 | 26 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 181 | - | 47 | 74 | 57 | 20 | 2 | - | 7 | 8 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 21 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 155 | - | 86 | 95 |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever & Paratyphoid | 10 | . | _ | 5 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |
| Puerperal lyrexia | 51 | - | - | - | 23 | 28 | - | - | - | - | 32 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | - | 4 | 9 | - | 51 | ||||
| Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | 32 | - | 12 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 25 | 9 | 19 | 13 | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 17 | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | _ | - | _ | _ | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 7 | — | 8 | 9 |
| Poliojmyelitis and Polioencephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1— | 1 | _ | 1 1 | ||
| Dysentery | 8 | - | 3 | , 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | . - | 1 | 6 | - | 6 | 2 | ||
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ |
| Ac. Primary Ac. Influenzal Pnaumcnia | 55 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 8 | - | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 26 | 29 | |
| Measles | 1588 | 38 | 346 | 656 | *35 | 12 | 1 | - | 45 | 59 | 111 | 114 | 221 | 144 | 126 | 92 | 100 | 101 | 101 | 78 | 49 | 64 | 183 | 26 | 5 | 808 | 780 |
| whooping Cough | 939 | 103 | 569 | 249 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 51 | 25 | 64 | 35 | 155 | 49 | 40 | 41 | 73 | 68 | 65 | 103 | 19 | 41 | 112 | 58 | 6 | 478 | 461 | |