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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of the Health for 1936.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total CASES of Infective Diseases occurring in each Locality. | Total Cases occurring. | Number admitted into Hospital. | Total Deaths. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | 101 | 18 | 45 | 49 | 34 | 118 | 365 | 361 | 23 |
| Scarlet Fever | 107 | 44 | 94 | 134 | 117 | 148 | 644 | 563 | - |
| Enteric and Para-typhoid Fevers | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 28 | 25 | 3 |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 18 | - |
| Erysipelas | 20 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 50 | 127 | 51 | 2 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal | 11 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 46 | - | 14 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Primary | 44 | 31 | 35 | 32 | 39 | 94 | 275 | - | 40 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Polio-myelitis | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | 6 | 4 | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | - | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Malaria | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2 | 3 | 3 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 9 | 12 | — | — |
| Total | 291 | 113 | 207 | 254 | 220 | 458 | 1543 | 1040 | 89 |
| Tuberculosis—all forms | 141 | 72 | 60 | 83 | 74 | 139 | 569 | - | 239 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 27 | 10 | 1 |
| Total | 149 | 76 | 61 | 88 | 75 | 147 | 596 | 10 | 240 |
| Grand Total | 440 | 189 | 268 | 342 | 295 | 605 | 2139 | 1050 | 329 |