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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 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE V.Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1914and ten preceding Years.

TABLE V.

Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1914

and ten preceding Years.

Disease.1914.1918.1912.1911.1910.1909.1908.1907.1906.1905.1904.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.CasesDeaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Notifiable.Small Pox................................4......3..
Scarlet Fever7485470347624687759772795345661114258416112918
Diphtheria and (1) Memb.Croup2261845116767255143726721356244053728640304402662531224
(2) Erysipelas9671076846795691923605734682785682
Puerperal Fever936410312481165105749211593
Enteric Fever20532632724726..213525191345344215
Simple Continued Fever............................................
Tuberculosis (3)508192519202312no240165130135139152106150131609617375162129142
Non-notifiable./Diarrhœa and Enteritis..67..85..58..147..51..45..75..56..203..74..130
Measles..8..58..31..29..31..21..92..8..37..24..62
Whooping Cough..24..23..13..38..20..30..29..32..28..31..15
Influenza..15..26..18..14..25..59..52..31..20..30..27
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and .. Pleurisy..313..297..250..280..251..323..282..316..218..302..314

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(1) Notifiable since May, 1897. (2) Notifiable since January, 1900. (3) Voluntary Notification, 1903-09.
Poor Law Cases, Compulsorily Notifiable 1st Jan., 1909. Cases Treated in Hospital, Compulsorily Notifiable 1st May, 1911.
All cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notifiable 1st January, 1912. All forms of Tuberculosis notifiable 1st February, 1913.
In the above Table deaths of Non-residents occurring at the Workhouse, Workhouse Infirmary, Borough Hospital,
General Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital, Purley Cottage Hospital, and 99, Central Hill (Servants
Reformatory), are excluded. Prior to 1903 correction was only made for the first three institutions.