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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 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton and Morden]

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Table: TABLE II.—Cases of Infectious Diseases notified during the year 1923.

TABLE II.—Cases of Infectious Diseases notified during the year 1923.

Notifiable Diseases.At all Ages.Cases Notified in whole District.Total Cases Notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital.Total Deaths.
At all Ages—Years.123 ^345
Under 11 to 22 to 33 to 44 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 3535 to 4545 to 65Over 65Abbey WarePark WardBushey Mea Ward.West Barne Ward.Morden Ward.
Cerebrospinal Meningitis--------------------
Chicken-pox28211111921---71182---
Cholera--------------------
Continued Fever--------------------
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)39-1132195161--1222122391
Dysentery--------------------
Encephalitis Lethargica1--------1-------1-2
Enteric Fever--------------------
Erysipelas7---------133222-11
Malaria1-------------------
Ophthalmic Neonatorum--------------------
Plague--------------------
Pneumonia21---------1-1---1110
Poliomyelitis--------------------
Puerperal Fever-------------------
Relapsing Fever--------------------
Scarlet Fever65--1662817331--376143554-
Small-pox--------------------
Tuberculosis :—--------------------
(a) PulmonaryM11-------2342-2252--
F.8------2-30-142-11-10
(b) Non-PulmonaryM.3-----1--11----3----
F.-------------------3
Typhus Fever--------------------
TOTALS1653231096726717107465156410119526