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Wandsworth 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE V
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1956
| NOTIFIABLE DISEASES | TOTAL CASES OF INFECTIVE DISEASES OCCURING IN EACH WARD | Whole Borough | Deaths | |||||||||||||||||||
| PUTNEY | CENTRAL | CLAPHAM | STREATHEM | |||||||||||||||||||
| Putney | Thamesfield | Fairfield | West Hill | Southfield | Earlsfield | Springfield | Tooting | Graveney | Bedford | Larkhall | Clapham North | Clapham Park | Thornton | Balham | Streatham Hill | St. Leonards | Streatham Common | Streatham South | Furzedown | |||
| Smallpox | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Diphtheria | — | - | — | 4 | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 201 | _ |
| Measles | JO | 26 | 25 | 68 | 76 | 77 | 49 | 25 | 9 | 32 | 48 | 43 | 24 | 46 | 70 | 77 | ?l | 1? | 10 | 9 | 677 | 2 |
| Whooping Cough | 35 | 16 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 40 | 32 | 41 | 37 | 18 | 21 | 33 | 39 | 11 | ?? | 74 | 75 | 46 | 548 | _ |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | I | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 4 | _ |
| Malaria | — | — | — | _ | — | — | _ | _ | — | — | — | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Dysentry | 12 | 9 | 32 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 23 | 41 | 44 | 35 | 51 | 10 | 46 | 71 | 26 | 48 | 78 | 4? | 73 | 74 | 750 | _ |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | 4 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | _ | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 54 | _ | |
| Scabies | 1 | — | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | _ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 | _ | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | — | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 10 | — | 4 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 101 | _ |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 2 | _ | |
| Meningococcal Infection | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 5 | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 4 | 3 | 1 | i | i | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | _ | 2 | _ | 1 | 39 | 7 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | — | I | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | 1 | 9 | _ |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |
| Pneumonia:— | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 135 | 15 |
| Acute Primary | 8 | 6 | 2 3 | 23 | 12 | 35 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 220 | 38 |
| Tuberculosis—All forms | 98 | 17 | 18 | 22 | 30 | 19 | 18 | 29 | 16 | 32 | 26 | 33 | 79 | ?? | 30 | 33 | 75 | 14 | 15 | 70 | 546 | 47 |
| Food Poisoning | 80 | 4 | 50 | 11 | 8 | 78 | 6 | 3 | 72 | 9 | 9 | 1 | _ | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 362 | 5 |
| Total | 296 | 92 | 199 | 186 | 185 | 278 | 176 | 180 | 199 | 214 | 213 | 129 | 166 | 205 | 176 | 141 | 169 | 128 | 158 | 192 | 3,682 | 111 |