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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
Merton and Morden 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]
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TABLE XII.
Notification of Infectious Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) by age groups during the year 1950.
| Disease | TOTAL CASES NOTIFIED | Total cases at all ages | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-34 | 35-44 | 45-64 | 65 and over | ||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 7 | 30 | 66 | 9 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 121 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | - | - | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | 6 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | - | 3 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 16 | 58 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | |||||||||||
| Paralytic | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Dysentery | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | 10 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 9 | 88 | 153 | 260 | 4 | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | 523 |
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 67 | 69 | 68 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 223 |
| Totals | 24 | 168 | 257 | 404 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 15 | 26 | 22 | 977 |