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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 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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133
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1970
| Notifiable Disease | At all ages | Cases notified | Total cases notified In wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At ages • veers | U. Norwood | Norburv | W. Thornton | Ben. Manor | Thornton Heath | S. Norwood | Woods ide | East | Addlscombe | Whltehorse M. | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | Addlngton | * Shirley | Sanderstead North | Sanderstead and Selsdon | Woodcote and Coulsdon West | Coulsdon East | Purle v | M | F | TOTAL | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 - 4 | 5- 14 | 15 - 24 | 25 • 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 & over | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 120 | - | 29 | 86 | 5 | - | - | 3 | 4 | '1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 64 | 66 | 120 | ||
| Diphtheri | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Menlnaitls | 7 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Typhoid and Para Typhoid | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | .. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| .Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Dysentery | 19 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | * | - | - | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 19 | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| infectlve Jaundice | 48 | - | 4 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 22 | 48 | ||
| Food Poisoning | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 5 | 10 | 15 | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Measles | 1038 | 46 | 624 | 469 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 29 | 39 | 98 | 90 | 46 | 46 | 54 | 47 | 37 | 54 | 68 | 24 | 42 | 61 | 109 | 14 | 2 | 29 | 86 | 63 | 506 | 532 | 1038 |
| Whooping Cough | 147 | 27 | 66 | 53 | - | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 3 | - | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 38 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 2 | - | 6 | 69 | 78 | 147 | |
| Leptospirosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tetanus | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Yellow Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1407 | 87 | 632 | 617 | 29 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 47 | 49 | 109 | 99 | 65 | 67 | 76 | 65 | 46 | 69 | 75 | 33 | 51 | 134 | 147 | 28 | 11 | 49 | 105 | 82 | 680 | 727 | 1407 | |
Tubersulosis notifications are shown in the section relating to that disease