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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 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton and Morden]
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TABLE II.—Cases of Infectious Diseases notified during the year 1925.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Cases Notified in whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each f ocality. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | Total Deaths. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At all Ages—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to g5 | Ovei g5 | Abbey Ward | Park Ward- | Bushey Mead Ward. | West Barnes Ward. | Morden Ward. | |||||
| Cerebrospinal Meningitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Chicken-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 23 | - | |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Ophthalmic Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Fneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | — | ||
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 74 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 32 | 13 | o | 8 | - | - | - | 4 | 10 | 43 | 11 | 6 | 70 | 1 | |
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Tuberculosis :— | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (a) Pulmonary | M. | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 2 | 7 | - | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| F. | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | |
| (b) Non-Pulmonary | M. | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | |
| F. | 7 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| TOTALS | 143 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 44 | 22 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 24 | 77 | 10 | 96 | 2 | |||