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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE VII.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total. | No. of CASES of Infective 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 | 479 | 391 | 88 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 36 | 38 | 197 | 64 | 21 | 42 | 17 | 7 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 584 | 488 | 96 | 1 | 11 | 26 | 35 | 72 | 266 | 77 | 38 | 41 | 13 | 3 | 1 |
| Measles | 3594 | 3558 | 36 | 102 | 167 | 202 | 366 | 558 | 2027 | 136 | 17 | 17 | 2 | _ | _ |
| Whooping Cough | 508 | 504 | 4 | 22 | 52 | 39 | 58 | 105 | 209 | 19 | 4 | _ | - | _ | _ |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 11 | 2 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | _ | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Dysentery | 179 | 28 | 151 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 117 |
| Erysipelas | 123 | 8 | 115 | 2 | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 55 | 24 |
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | — | 6 | — | _ | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | — | 6 | _ | _ | _ |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 51 | — | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 45 | 6 | _ | _ |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 32 | 32 | — | 32 | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 16 | 9 | 7 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | 4 | 2 | _ | 4 | — | 2 | 1 |
| Polio-myelitis | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | _ | 2 | _ | _ | _ |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | |||||||||||||||
| Anthrax | 1 | — | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | |
| Pneumonia :— | |||||||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 37 | 3 | 34 | 1 | — | — | 2 | _ | _ | _ | 4 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 7 |
| Acute Primary | 284 | 94 | 190 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 12 | 17 | 37 | 32 | 60 | 44 |
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 621 | 69 | 552 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 28 | 79 | 293 | 79 | 85 | 16 |
| Food Poisoning | 5 | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 6540 | 5193 | 1347 | 193 | 275 | 315 | 519 | 793 | 2752 | 346 | 188 | 525 | 179 | 240 | 215 |
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