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Wandsworth 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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12 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1949.

TABLE VI.

Total Cases of Infective Diseases Occurring in Each Ward.Whole BoroughDeaths
Notifiable Diseases.PutneyCentralClaphamStreatham
PutneyThamesfieldFairfieldWest HillSouthfieldEarlsfieldSpringfieldTootingGraveneyBedfordLarkhallClapham NorthClapham ParkThorntonBalhamStreatham HillS.t LeonardsStreatham CommonStreatham SouthFurz down
Small-pox----------------------
Diphtheria--2------13-------1-7-
Scarlet Fever262045102638342831332427251923517231714485-
Measles7610914311314316918524320519219912288195125162143136150712969-
Whooping Cough8173733252350783534373412321517183231436113
Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever1-1--11--1------------
Malaria---------1----------1-
Dysentery-----1-4210---11-112-261-
Erysipelas-42119444744325-3113677-
Scabies-212-43555311577-23152-
Puerperal Pyrexia-1-22-2111421--1-31123-
Ophthalmia Neonatorum--1------1-2----21-18-
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis---11-32--------11-1102
Polio-myelitis3644-2242164144422-3585
Encephalitis Lethargica----------------------
Anthrax----------------------
Pneumonia:—
Acute Influenzal85761271325211312118739355818820
Acute Primary
Tuberculosis—All forms30404426302930414848392643453630713???3*694152
Food Poisoning---11547226--2-32172467-
Total1522042872092492833314803873413312321843132112412102472351895316183