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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1957
| Notifiable Disease | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Shirley | M | F | |||||||
| Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-14 | 15 - 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 133 | - | 26 | 102 | 3 | 2 | - | _ | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 70 | 63 |
| Diphtheria | . | - | - | - | . | - | - | . | . | - | - | - | - | . | _ | . | • | . | • | . | . | . | . | . | ||
| Erysipelas | 27 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | . | 4 | - | 1 | • | . | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | • | . | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | _ | 2 | . | . | - | - | _ | _ | 1 | _ | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | _ | _ | 1 | - | - | - | - | _ | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 78 | - | - | - | 43 | 35 | - | - | - | 1 | 53 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 16 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 78 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 36 | - | 7 | 18 | 3 | 8 | - | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | 27 | 9 | ||
| Dysentery | 139 | 4 | 25 | 72 | 7 | 28 | 2 | 1 | • | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 10 | - | - | 113 | 6 | 72 | 67 |
| Malaria | 3 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 90 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 33 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 48 | 42 |
| Food Poisoning | 74 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 9 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 34 | 40 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 4 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
| Measles | 3904 | 1 16 | 1787 | 1969 | 15 | 15 | 2 | - | 248 | 228 | 236 | 225 | 276 | 248 | 127 | 116 | 191 | 207 | 241 | 126 | 242 | 208 | 831 | 154 | 1913 | 199 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 469 | 48 | 202 | 213 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 20 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 31 | 16 | 81 | 27 | 17 | 19 | 6 | 22 | 17 | 128 | 26 | 240 | 229 |
| 4970 | 179 | 20 59 | 2409 | 98 | 129 | 63 | 33 | 291 | 261 | 337 | 258 | 328 | 314 | 169 | 234 | 245 | 243 | 293 | 149 | 293 | 247 | 1098 | 210 | 2427 | 2543 | |
The tuberculosis notifications are shown in the section relating to that disease.