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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Infective Diseases
TABLE IV
| Notifiable Diseases | No. or CASES of Infective Diseases Grouped in Age Periods | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Under 1 | 1—3 | 3—5 | 5—10 | 10—15 | 15—25 | 25—45 | 45—65 | 65 and upwards | |
| Small—pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 565 | 4 | 38 | 139 | 288 | 63 | 21 | 9 | 3 | — |
| Measles | 1720 | 48 | 368 | 482 | 780 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 1 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 1087 | 81 | 227 | 283 | 470 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 5 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 81 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 10 |
| Erysipelas | 69 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 23 | 16 |
| Scabies | 47 | — | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 14 | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Meningococcal Infection | 11 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Acute Polio—myelitis | 40 | — | 3 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | — |
| Acute Encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pneumonia:— | 197 | 9 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 41 | 45 | 39 |
| Acute Primary | ||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | ||||||||||
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 671 | — | 16 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 194 | 262 | 121 | 34 |
| Food Poisoning | 116 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 35 | 32 | 10 |
| Total | 4637 | 157 | 700 | 954 | 1609 | 143 | 280 | 432 | 259 | 112 |