London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
This page requires JavaScript
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING YEAR 1955
| Notifiable Disease | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Bensham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Wood side | East | Add i scombe | Whitehorse Manor | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | South | Add i ngton | Shirley | M | F | |||||||
| Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-14 | 15 - 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 250 | - | 58 | 179 | 8 | 3 | 2 | - | 6 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 17 | 35 | 23 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 25 | 11 | 139 | 111 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 21 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | 13 | 8 |
| Meningococcal Infect ion | 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | 3 | - | -_ | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | . | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | ||
| Smal1 pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia Ophthalmia Neo | 98 | - | " - | - | 43 | 55 | - | - | - | - | 57 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 30 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 98 |
| natorum | 18 | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 5 |
| Acute Poliomyeliti s | 29 | - | 4 | 10 | 7 | 8 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | 9 | 2 | 14 | 15 |
| Dysentery | 1179 | 48 | 302 | 558 | 47 | 201 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 23 | 13 | 20 | 22 | 16 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 32 | 19 | 10 | 47 | 907 | 6 | 571 | 608 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 75 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 24 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 37 | 38 | ||
| Food Poisoning | 79 | 1 | 18 | 22 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | - | 37 | 42 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Measles | 5052 | 160 | 2264 | 2591 | 17 | 16 | 4 | - | 238 | 234 | 306 | 249 | 230 | 309 | 226 | 407 | 333 | 245 | 208 | 165 | 298 | 251 | 1191 | 162 | 2595 | 2457 |
| Whooping Cough | 276 | 26 | 102 | 141 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 4 | 42 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 38 | 13 | 10 | 27 | 2 | 14 | 23 | 29 | 21 | 127 | 149 |
| 7087 | 253 | 2752 | 3516 | 140 | 335 | 65 | 26 | 267 | 329 | 437 | 295 | 302 | 384 | 282 | 488 | 392 | 288 | 339 | 197 | 347 | 356 | 2180 | 204 | 3551 | 3536 | |