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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 1915

[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 1915and ten preceding Years.

TABLE V.

Table showing the number of cases notified and deaths from the principal zymotic diseases for the Year 1915

and ten preceding Years.

Disease.1915.1914.1913.1912.1911.1910.1909.1908.1907.1906.1905.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.CasesDeaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Notifiable.Cerebro- Spinal Meningitis249........................................
Poliomyelitis41........................................
Small Pox....................................4......
Scarlet Fever4145748547034762468775977279534566111425841611
Diphtheria and (i) Memb.Croup1951422618451167672551437267213562440537286403044026625
(2) Erysipelas82396;1076846795691923605734682785
Puerperal Fever1259364103124811651057492115
Enteric Fever22320532632724726213525191345344
Simple Continued Fever............................................
Non-notifiable.Tuberculosis (3)550238503192519202312140240165130135139152106150131609617375162
'Diarrhoea and Enteritis..62..67..85..58..147..51..45..75..56..203..74
Measles (4)..108..8..58..31..29..31..21..92..8..37..24
Whooping Cough..12..24..23..13..38..20..30..29..32..28..31
Influenza..45..15..26..18..14..25..59..52..31..20..30
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and .. Pleurisy..399..313..297..250..280..251..323..282..316..218..302

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(1) Notifiable since May, 1897. (2) Notifiable since January, 1900. (3) Voluntary Notification, 1903-09. (4) Notifiable after January 1st, 1916.
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.
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