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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
Penge 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the year 1940.
| Cases notified. At ages - Years. | Cases admitted to Isolation Hospital | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 13 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 10 |
| Diphtheria | 7 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 7 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | 4 | - | ~ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Carebro-spinal Pever | 6 | 1 | - | - | — | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 6 |
| Measles | 125 | 12 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 101 |
| Whooping Cough | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Totals | 169 | 14 | 26 | 29 | 19 | 13 | 23 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 132 |
Deaths of notified cases - Cerebro-spinal fever, 1 aged 28 years.
Diphtheria, 1 aged 3 years.
10.