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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 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| notifiable disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | St. Mary's Ward. | St. John's Ward. | Cottenham Park Ward. | Dundonald Ward. | Trinity Ward. | South Park Ward. | |||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards | ||||||||||
| i | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cholera (c) Plague (p) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 129 | 1 | 17 | 93 | 8 | 8 | 2 | - | 16 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 35 | 63 | 106 | |
| Erysipelas | 29 | - | - | 5 | - | 6 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | - | |
| Scarlet fever | 147 | 3 | 18 | 93 | 21 | 12 | - | - | 21 | 7 | 17 | 20 | 30 | 52 | 108† | |
| Typhus fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteric fever | 8 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Relapsing fever, Contd. fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Puerperal fever | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 11 | ||
| Cerebro spinal Meningitis | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1* | |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 109 | - | 15 | 30 | 44 | 17 | 2 | 25 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 39 | - | ||
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 39 | - | 9 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 2 | - | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 13 | - | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Totals | 466 | 6 | 44 | 229 | 69 | 77 | 34 | 7 | 70 | 23 | 37 | 48 | 105 | 183 | 221 | |
* Wimbledon and Merton Hospital (Nelson Hospital).
† Two cases removed to Western Hospital (Metropolitan Asylums Board) and one to London Fever Hospital.
Isolation Hospitals:—Borough Isolation Hospital, Gap Road, Wimbledon; Croydon and Wimbledon Joint Small-pox Hospital,
Cheam, Surrey.