London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wandsworth 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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14 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
TABLE X.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total. | No. of CASES of Infectious Diseases grouped in Age Periods. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15 and upwards | Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-20 | 20-35 | 35-45 | 45-65 | 65 and upwards | ||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | 769 | 643 | 126 | 8 | 16 | 27 | 50 | 70 | 341 | 131 | 46 | 55 | 16 | 6 | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 633 | 524 | 109 | 1 | 13 | 25 | 41 | 60 | 300 | 84 | 51 | 42 | 13 | 3 | - |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid Fever | 21 | 12 | 9 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 17 | - | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 5 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 13 | - | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 109 | 10 | 99 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 17 | 43 | 14 |
| Whooping Cough | 1235 | 1219 | 16 | 111 | 120 | 117 | 130 | 195 | 529 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia :- | |||||||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 49 | 8 | 41 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 9 |
| Acute Primary | 428 | 212 | 216 | 44 | 43 | 18 | 23 | 19 | 55 | 10 | 18 | 46 | 44 | 70 | 38 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Polio-myelitis | 13 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 17 | 1 | 16 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Malaria | 6 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Dysentery | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Trench Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 3316 | 2642 | 674 | 173 | 193 | 192 | 248 | 345 | 1238 | 253 | 134 | 211 | 110 | 151 | 68 |