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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING YEAR 1954
| Notifiabl e Disease | Cases notifi ed | Total cases notified in wards 1954 | Sex Di st ribu-t ion of Noti f i ed Cases 1954 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Bensham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | woodside | East | Addi scornbe | Whitehorse Manor | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | South | Addi ngton | Sh irley | |||||||||
| Under l | 1-4 | 5-14 | 15 - 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Respiratory Tuber- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| culosis | 211 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 53 | 75 | 47 | 19 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 139 | 72 |
| Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis | 27 | _ | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | 11 | 16 |
| Scarlet Fever | 4 06 | - | 90 | 301 | 12 | 2 | 1 | - | 15 | 28 | 24 | 43 | 13 | 27 | 11 | 39 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 10 | 21 | 20 | 84 | 24 | 215 | 191 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 28 | - | — | - | 4 | 4 | 14 | 6 | - | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | _ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | _ | _ | 4 | - | 3 | 10 | 18 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 3 |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 63 | - | — | - | 24 | 39 | - | - | 1 | - | 32 | _ | 1 | 2 | _ | _ | — | — | 21 | 2 | 3 | _ | 1 | _ | 63 | |
| Ophthalmi a Neonatorum | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 4 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 7 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | _ | — | — | - | _ | 2 | 3 | _ | 1 | _ | — | - | 1 | _ | 4 | 3 |
| Dysentery | 199 | 3 | 33 | 83 | 8 | 45 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 45 | 15 | 76 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 97 | 10 2 |
| Malaria | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | _ | — | _ | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 33 | _ | 3 | 10 | _ | 8 | 8 | 4 | _ | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 16 | 17 | |
| Food Poisoning | 61 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 3 | - | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 | — | 4 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 31 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Measles | 194 | 8 | 72 | 108 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 18 | 10 | 36 | 35 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 25 | 98 | 96 |
| Whooping Cough | 50 5 | 54 | 206 | 235 | 1 | 7 | 2 | — | 27 | 35 | 30 | 27 | 44 | 40 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 45 | 33 | 37 | 30 | 18 | 74 | 18 | 242 | 263 |
| 1752 | 78 | 122 | 771 | 114 | 211 | 105 | 51 | 83 | 99 | 161 | 18 2 | 121 | 18 2 | 53 | 97 | 66 | 84 | 107 | 67 | 81 | 89 | 193 | 97 | 869 | 883 | |