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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notifiable diseases during 1957.
| DISEASE | Number of Cases Notified in Various Age Groups | Total Cases Notified | Total Cases removed to Hospital | Total Deaths | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25 and over | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | – | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 44 | 6 | – | – | 59 | 11 | – |
| Measles | 11 | 50 | 62 | 80 | 83 | 349 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 660 | 6 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 57 | 5 | — | 1 | 108 | 2 | – |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | 3 | 6i | 5 | 2 |
| ,, „ (Non-paralytic) | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2‡ | 2 | — |
| Meningococcal Infection | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | 14 | 25 | 25† | — |
| Dysentery | 1 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4 | — |
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Pneumonia (Acute Primary or Influenzal) | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 20 | 24 | 6 | 30* |
| Food Poisoning | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Acute Encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| TOTALS | 19 | 60 | 72 | 94 | 102 | 454 | 31 | 16 | 50 | 898 | 64 | 32 |
* All Forms.
t These 25 patients were already in hospital.
‡ Two further cases were notified to Lambeth Borough Council.
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