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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
Wimbledon 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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TABLE A. - NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING 1940.
| DISEASE | Number of Cases Notified in Various Age Groups. | Total Cases Notified | Total Cases Removed to Hospital | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-20 | 20-35 | 35-45 | 45-65 | 65 & over | |||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 40 | 32 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 9 | 9 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | - | 2 | 1 | 19 | 11 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | 4 |
| Measles | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 56 | 11 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 2 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 18 | - |
| Acute Influenzal " | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 12 | 12 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Polio-encephalitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Melaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 34 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 67 | 47 |
| TOTALS | 9 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 36 | 23 | 26 | 71 | 13 | 29 | 11 | 261 | 132 |