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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE IV
| Notifiable diseases | No. of cases of infective diseases grouped in age-period | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Under 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65 and upwards | |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | – |
| Scarlet Fever | 284 | 7 | 28 | 45 | 148 | 40 | 12 | 4 | – | |
| Measles | 5,206 | 86 | 880 | 990 | 3,148 | 57 | 21 | 24 | – | – |
| Whooping Cough | 547 | 21 | 111 | 136 | 255 | 14 | 10 | – | – | – |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 7 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | – | - | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Dysentery | 89 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 20 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 52 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 11 |
| Scabies | 33 | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 2 | – |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 101 | - | - | - | - | - | 50 | 51 | - | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ |
| Meningococcal Infection | 6 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | – | - | – |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 49 | - | 4 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | – | – | – |
| Anthrax | - | - | – | – | - | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pneumonia: | ||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 121 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 51 | 37 |
| Acute Primary | 200 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 39 | 62 | 36 |
| Tuberculosis-All forms | 644 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 16 | 152 | 310 | 107 | 29 |
| Food Poisoning | 623 | 5 | 67 | 92 | 137 | 156 | 58 | 49 | 34 | 25 |
| Total | 7,968 | 129 | 1,109 | 1,301 | 3,769 | 328 | 361 | 536 | 294 | 141 |