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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
Croydon 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The following table shows the number of cases of infectious disease notified in the District for each year since the Act came into force.
| 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private Houses. | Public Institutions. | |||||
| Small-pox | - | - | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Scarlatina | 109 | 83 | 117 | 316 | 80 | 19 |
| Diphtheria | 19 | 17 | 16 | 44 | 63 | - |
| Membranous Croup | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 14 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 12 | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 4 | 13 | 22 | 31 | 13 | 5 |
| Measles | 134 | 247 | 579 | 138 | 402 | 56 |
| *Acute Diarrhœa | - | - | - | - | 5 | - |
| Totals | 282 | 369 | 754 | 559 | 583 | 81 |
The following table shows the number of notified cases in
each parish in the District.
Table G.—Notified cases of infectious disease in 1894, including institutions.
| Parishes. | Addington. | Beddington. | Coulsdon. | Merton. | Mitoham. | Morden. | Sanders tead. | Wallington. | W oodmansterne. | The District. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Scarlatina | 1 | 8 | 2 | 17 | 53 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 99 | |
| Diphtheria and | 6 | 6 | 50 | 2 | 64 | |||||
| Membranous Croup | ||||||||||
| Typhoid Fever | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | |||||
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Erysipelas | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 | ||||
| Measles | 14 | 19 | 4 | 83 | 2 | 336 | 458 | |||
| Acute Diarrhœa | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| Totals | 1 | 25 | 35 | 34 | 203 | 8 | 5 | 353 | 664 |
*Acute diarrhoea was a notifiable disease for a few weeks in September,
1894.