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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
Camberwell 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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TABLE OF NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1938. Showing Distribution of Cases in Wards.
| Disease. | WARDS. | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |||
| Diphtheria and Croup | 35 | 32 | 27 | 22 | 37 | 18 | 43 | 26 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 35 | 20 | 26 | 30 | 18 | 4 | 439 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 43 | 36 | 45 | 31 | 29 | 26 | 28 | 18 | 20 | 10 | 22 | 19 | 26 | 45 | 56 | 31 | 33 | 17 | 23 | 4 | 562 | |
| Measles | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | – | 3 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 12 | |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 3 | 2 | – | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 5 | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | – | 38 | |
| Enteric Fever and Para-typhoid | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | |
| Pneumonia | Acute Influenzal | 3 | – | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 33 |
| Acute Primary | 4 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 117 | |
| Erysipelas | 9 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 11 | – | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 107 | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 6 | |
| Poliomyelitis | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 5 | |
| Malaria | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Malaria (induced) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | 3 | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 21 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – | 14 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | 44 | |
| Totals | 107 | 89 | 108 | 76 | 87 | 70 | 105 | 82 | 63 | 21 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 118 | 68 | 75 | 73 | 64 | 52 | 12 | 1,376 | |
REFERENCE TO WARDS.
No. No. No. No.
1. West. 6. Marlborough. 11. St. Mary's. 16. St. John's.
2. Addington. 7. North Peckham. 12. Nunhead. 17. Alleyn.
3. Town Hall. 8. Goldsmith. 13. The Rye." 18! Ruskin.
4. St. George's. 9. Clifton. 14. St. Giles'. 19. The Hamlet.
5. Cobourg. 10. Rye Lane. 15. Lyndhurat. 20. The College.