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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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TABLE A. - NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING 1944.
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 27 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | 77 | 55 | |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | - | - | - | - | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | 24 | 24 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | 2 |
| Measles | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 57 | 13 |
| Whooping Cough | 17 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 44 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 117 | 11 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 19 | - |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 6 | - |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Polio-encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Encephalitis lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 89 | 14 | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | •• | 9 | 4 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 1 | |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | " | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 33 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 76 | 51 |
| TOTALS | 31 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 39 | 126 | 49 | 21 | 77 | 28 | 26 | 16 | 496 | 179 |