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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 1950
[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. | Sex Distribution of Notified Cases. 1950. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 543 | - | 164 | 354 | 21 | 6 | 1 | - | 28 | 18 | 37 | 28 | 46 | 73 | 54 | 58 | 33 | 23 | 34 | 17 | 23 | 32 | 42 | 208 | 248 |
| Diphtheria | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 33 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | 9 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 22 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Enteric & Paratyphoid | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 35 | - | - | - | 14 | 21 | - | - | 2 | - | 24 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 35 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum Poliomyelitis and | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | |||
| Polio-encephalitis | 39 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | - | 4 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 10 | 20 | 19 |
| Dysentery | bb | 3 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 8 | 5 | - | 8 | I | 1 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 26 | 29 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 52 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 26 |
| Food Poisoning | 48 | - | 4 | 11 | 3 | 21 | 9 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 13 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 10 | 21 | 27 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Measles | 1367 | 28 | 619 | 704 | 8 | 7 | 1 | - | 120 | 60 | 92 | 22 | 105 | 131 | 122 | 126 | 8Q | 56 | - | 16 | 5-1 | 55 | 267 | 703 | 664 |
| Whooping Cough | 1204 | 97 | 566 | 516 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 83 | 45 | 94 | 83 | 127 | 96 | 64 | 85 | 87 | 78 | 60 | 30 | 88 | 34 | 147 | 570 | 634 |
| Totals | 3389 | 137 | 1392 | 1628 | 70 | 111 | 40 | 11 | 256 | 137 | 281 | 152 | 312 | 311 | 244 | 288 | 220 | 171 | 169 | 75 | 178 | 129 | 486 | 1680 | 1709 |