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Wimbledon 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Ninety two cases of tuberculosis were notified. This figure
shows an increase of sixteen on the number for the previous year.
There were thirty one deaths from tuberculosis in 1945, one
more than in the previous year.
Twenty five of these were due to pulmonary tuberculosis.
During 1945, sixty Wimbledon patients were admitted to sanatoria
or hospitals.
WIMBLEDON INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL.
Two hundred and sixteen cases were admitted to the Infectious
Diseases Hospital during 1945. As there were seventeen cases in
the hospital at the end of 1944, the total number of cases under treatment
during the year was two hundred and thirty three. Of these
cases one hundred and nine were from Wimbledon, one hundred and
eleven from Kingston, and thirteen from other areas.
The diseases from which the patients were stated to be suffering on admission were as follows:—
| Diphtheria | 36 |
| Scarlet Fever | 65 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 13 |
| Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis | 2 |
| Dysentery | 15 |
| Gastro-Enteritis | 6 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 |
| Measles | 46 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 |
| Erysipelas | 5 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | 2 |
| Other conditions | 15 |
| 216 |
The remaining nine cases were finally diagnosed as follows:—
| Vincent's Angina | 2 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 |
| Measles | 1 |
| Tonsillitis | 2 |
| Quinsy | 1 |
| Acute Sinusitis and Otitis Media | 1 |
| Catarrhal Laryngitis | 1 |
| 9 |