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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Table I.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING YEAR 1944.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in the whole District. | Total cases notified in each Ward. | Total cases removed to Borough Hospital & diagnosis confirmed. | Total Deaths in the Borough. | Sex Distribution 1944. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At ages-years. | Upper Norwood. | Norbury. | West Thornton. * | Bensham Manor. | Thornton Heath. | South Norwood. | Woodside. | East. | Addiscombe. | Whitehorse Manor. | Broad Green. | Central. | Waddon. | South. | Addington. | ||||||||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1 year. | 1-4. | 5-14. | 15-24. | 25-44. | 45-64. | 65 and up. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 358 | - | 80 | 221 | 36 | 18 | 3 | - | 24 | 12 | 70 | 17 | 30 | ?9 | 37 | 29 | 23 | 22 | 26 | 8 | 24 | 7 | 50 | 308 | - | 169 | 189 |
| Diphtheria | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 20 | - | 10 | 10 |
| Erysipelas | 37 | - | - | 2 | - | 14 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 13 | 1 | 20 | 17 | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Enteric &Paratyphoid | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -. |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 43 | - | - | - | 9 | 39 | - | - | 2 | - | 37 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 44 | - | - | 48 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | |
| Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Dysentery | 19 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 18 | - | 7 | 12 |
| Malaria | 11 | - | - | - | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 10 | - | 11 | - |
| Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 34 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 4 | ?? | 1? | |
| Measles | 258 | 5 | 71 | 153 | 20 | 7 | 2 | - | 5 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 1 7 | 27 | 23 | 23 | 7 | 22 | 17 | 20 | i 56 | 23 | 1 | 135 | 123 |
| Whooping Cough | 561 | 59 | 263 | 228 | 1 | 7 | 3 | - | 13 | 20 | 24 | 35 | 82 | 23 | I24 | 54 | 63 | 61 | 7 | | 20 | 33 | 33 | 69 | 32 | 10 | 255 | 306 |
| Totals | 1359 | 76 | 429 | 613 | 84 | 106 | 42 | 9 | 48 | 44 | 109 | 80 | 139 | 65 | 75 | 122 | 123 | 114 | 51 | 56 | 87 | 67 | 179 | 495 | 18 | 636 | 723 |
* Includes notifications from Mayday and St. Mary's Hospitals.
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