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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 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1971
| Notifiable Disease | At all ages | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At ages - years | U. Norwood | Norbury | W. Thornton | Ben. Manor | Thornton Heath | S. Norwood | Wood side East | Addiscombe | Whitehorse M. | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | A ddington | Shirley | Sanderstead North | Sanderstead and Selsdon | Woodcote and Coulsdon Wesf | Coulsdon East | Purley | M | F | TOTAL | |||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 - 4 | 5 - 14 | 16 - 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 & over | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 109 | - | 28 | 78 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | 19 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 56 | 53 | 109 | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Meningitis | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Typhoid and Para- Typhoid | 2 | - | - | -1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 13 | - | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 | |
| Malaria | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Infective Jaundice | 30 | - | 2 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 4 | 18 | 12 | 30 | |
| Food Poisoning | 21 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 979 | 33 | 535 | 400 | 9 | 2 | - | - | 49 | 33 | 24 | 19 | 26 | 45 | 65 | 53 | 67 | 50 | 30 | 19 | 30 | 174 | 99 | 19 | 50 | 37 | 31 | 59 | 510 | 469 | 979 |
| Whooping Cough | 207 | 37 | 83 | 78 | 3 | 6 | - | - | 5 | - | 5 | 2 | 17 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 69 | 22 | 2 | - | 15 | 6 | 4 | 117 | 90 | 207 |
| Leptospirosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tetanus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Yellow Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1372 | 76 | 658 | 574 | 27 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 61 | 37 | 37 | 34 | 50 | 59 | 89 | 80 | 79 | 65 | 36 | 28 | 44 | 265 | 141 | 23 | 59 | 65 | 42 | 78 | 727 | 645 | 1372 | |
Tubersulosis notifications are shown in the section relating to that disease