Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]
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TABLE VI.
Cases admitted to the Wandle Valley Isolation Hospital during
the Year 1948.
Disease | Cases | Deaths |
---|---|---|
Diphtheria | 2 | — |
Scarlet Fever | 78 | — |
Erysipelas | 2 | — |
Tonsillitis | 7 | — |
Measles | 11 | — |
Influenza and Pleurisy | 1 | — |
Whooping Cough | 4 | — |
Enteritis | 1 | — |
Meningitis | 1 | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | — |
Infantile Paralysis | 4 | — |
Otitis Media | 1 | — |
Septicaemia | 2 | — |
Pneumonia | 2 | 1 |
Sunstroke | 1 | — |
Carcinoma of Throat | 1 | — |
Disseminated Sclerosis | 1 | — |
Total | 120 | 1 |
General and Maternity.
The following information relating to the hospital's activities during the year is supplied by the courtesy of the Secretary:—
(a) General Medical and Surgical Treatment. | |
Total number of in-patients admitted | 2,535 |
Number from Merton and Morden | 759 |
Total number of new out-patients | 12,022 |
Number from Merton and Morden | 5,531 |
(b) Maternity Services. | |
Number of patients admitted from all districts during the year:— | |
(1) General Wards | 490 |
(2) Private Wards | 172 |
662 |