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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| 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 of Notified Cases. 1947. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | 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. | |||||||||||
| Under 1 year. | 1—4. | 5—14. | 15—24. | 25—44. | 45—64. | 65 and up. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 547 | 1 | 107 | 363 | 47 | 23 | 6 | - | 23 | 16 | 41 | 47 | 31 | 32 | 48 | 46 | 33 | 14 | 48 | 22 | 57 | 37 | 52 | 464 | - | 268 | 279 |
| Diphtheria | 25 | - | 4 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | - | 20 | 1 | 9 | 16 |
| Erysipelas | 22 | - | - | - | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 7 | - | 8 | 13 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Enteric & Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 39 | - | - | - | 10 | 29 | - | - | - | - | 20 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | - | - | 39 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 7 |
| Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis | 58 | - | 15 | 19 | 13 | 11 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 6 | - | 2 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 43 | 5 | 31 | 27 |
| Dysentery | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 76 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 20 | 22 | 8 | - | - | 9 | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 2 | - | 12 | 39 | 37 |
| Measles | 1774 | 65 | 770 | 875 | 43 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 43 | 76 | 144 | 130 | 139 | 151 | 43 | 125 | 155 | 139 | 157 | 66 | 129 | 68 | 209 | 58 | 1 | 860 | 914 |
| Whooping Cough | 605 | 101 | 309 | 182 | .3| | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 22 | 43 | 60 | 41 | 73 | 14 | 23 | 66 | 48 | 53 | 24 | 61 | 44 | 25 | 33 | 4 | 290 | 315 |
| Totals | 3163 | 183 | 1207 | 1470 | 124 | 122 | 40 | 17 | 77 | 120 | 272 | 244 | 218 | 273 | 115 | 208 | 271 | 223 | 297 | 124 | 270 | 159 | 292 | 640 | 25 | 1512 | 1651 |