Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1915.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | Total Casks Removed to Hospitals or Sanatoria. | |||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | West. | North. | Central. | East. | South. | South Norwood. | Upper Norwood. | Thornton Heath. | Institution cases which could not be distributed. | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 & upw d. | ||||||||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)., | 195 | 3 | 54 | 101 | 23 | 12 | 2 | .. | 27 | 35 | 12 | 27 | 7 | 44 | 14 | 29 | .. | 179 |
Erysipelas | 82 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 35 | 24 | 7 | 22 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 2 | 6 | .. | 2 |
Scarlet Fever | 414 | 2 | 117 | 217 | 53 | 24 | 1 | .. | 60 | 81 | 30 | 66 | 35 | 66 | 60 | 16 | .. | 363 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 22 | .. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 12 |
Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 8 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 9 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 24 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 5 | .. | .. | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | 18 |
Poliomyelitis | 4 | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 30 | 30 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 379 | 1 | 12 | 39 | 75 | 190 | 55 | 7 | 83 | 25 | 22 | 36 | 44 | 80 | 10 | 69 | 10 | 185 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 171 | 4 | 37 | 69 | 37 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 55 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 29 | 3 | 38 | 3 | 23 |
Totals | 1333 | 46 | 226 | 446 | 210 | 299 | 90 | 16 | 278 | 178 | 101 | 148 | 108 | 253 | 93 | 161 | 13 | 795 |
The Borough (Fever) Isolation Hospital is situated in the West Ward.
The Croydon«nd Wimbledon (Smallpox) Isolation Hospital is at North Cheam.
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