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Southwark 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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*Cases notified include 82 non-Southwark residents.
Confirmed cases include 74 Southwark residents notified to other Boroughs.
†(Certain of these confirmed cases were notified as other diseases, and diagnoses later corrected.
infectious Diseases (continued) SUMMARY OF NOTIFICATIONS, AGE GROUPS OF CONFIRMED CASES, AND HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS.
| Disease | Cases notified | Rem. to Hospital | CONFIRMED CASES, SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS Diagnosed in or outside Borough-Age Groups, 1955. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total 1954 | Total 1955 | 0- | 1- | 3- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | |||
| Pneumonia | 125 | 28 | 54 | 86 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 12 | - | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 |
| Poliomyelitis : Paralytic | 32 | 41 | 1 | 41 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-paralytic | 25 | 31 | - | 23 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 25 | 39 | 76 | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 20 | 12 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| Scabies | 32 | 1 | 20 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 186 | 33 | 96 | 185 | 1 | 17 | 40 | 98 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | ||
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 143 | 20 | 229 | 141 | 21 | 50 | 29 | 40 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Zymotic Enteritis (July-Sept.) | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | *3,204 | 551 | 933 | *2,971 | 154 | 776 | 734 | 1,046 | 51 | 26 | 38 | 51 | 23 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 18 |