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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Infective Diseases.
TABLE IV.
| Notifiable Diseases. | No. of 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 402 | — | 27 | 92 | 236 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 1 | — |
| Measles | 4299 | 114 | 925 | 1301 | 1791 | 79 | 48 | 39 | 1 | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 984 | 74 | 215 | 278 | 382 | 12 | 6 | 17 | — | — |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 5 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Malaria | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Dysentery | 117 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 20 | 19 |
| Erysipelas | 67 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 4 | 11 | 31 | 19 |
| Scabies | 35 | — | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 99 | — | — | — | — | — | 35 | 64 | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Acute Polio-myelitis | 11 | 2 | — | — | 6 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Acute Encephalitis | 5 | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pneumonia:— Acute Influenzal Acute Primary | 310 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 58 | 77 | 91 |
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 716 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 188 | 312 | 117 | 31 |
| Food Poisoning | 148 | — | 8 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 20 | 54 | 25 | 6 |
| Total | 7206 | 210 | 1226 | 1722 | 2497 | 166 | 337 | 602 | 276 | 170 |