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Croydon 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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TABLE V.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified and Deaths from Infectious Diseases during the Year 1923.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in whole District.Total Cases notified in each Locality.Total Cases Removed to Hospitals or SanatoriaTotal Cases Treated at HomeDeaths in Whole District (Home-treated cases, shown separately in brackets, but included in the total deaths)
At Ages—Years.Upper Norwood.Norbury.West Thornton.Ben sham Manor.Thornton Heath.South Non wood.Wood side.Bast.Addiscombe..White-horse Manor.Broad Green.Central.W addon..South.Institution cases which could not be distributedAt all ages.Under 112345101520354565 and upwardunrecorded ages.
At all AgesUnder 112345101520354665 and upwardUnrecorded Ages
Small-pox..........................................................................................
Cholera (C) Plague (P)..........................................................................................
Diphtheria19647101377148141534....69..3222340112317613824189721 (4)....313 (1)76 (3)..1........
Erysipelas36..........13..3S165..2..21312147512148282 (1)....................1(1)1..
Scarlet Fever379351027131411052534131..232381419224942121936211321833333462(1)..........1 (1)..1..........
Typhus Fever............................................................................................
Enteric Fever151....12123311....1....21..1..32..212..132............................
Relapsing Fever..........................................................................................
Puerperal Fever3................3........1..........1..............13..4 (1)................3 (1)1......
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis1............1..........................1................1............................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2323............................1..3........333334815............................
Pneumonia42..1......314135114......15..411431221..6834144(114)28 (26)12 (12)1(1)1 (1)..4(3)2(1)3 (1)13(8)8(4)29 (24)43 (33)..
Malaria..........................................................................................
Dysentery..........................................................................................
Encephalitis lethargica9........11111211..........1111112..1....635(2)........11..1 (1)..11 (1)....
Posterior basic meningitis..........................................................................................
Anterior poliomyelitis4....2....11................]11..1..............22............................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis : Male15211....128235437223..125106101713410151013101251034983 (54)1 (1)l (1)........2(1)8 (2)30 (2013 (8)22 (17)6 (4)..
Female129......11710265117124..13515678124918572135963372 (44)..........11(1)11 (738 (229 (5)8 (6)4 (3)..
Total28111..129184S10554347..2510251217252581933152012251019982155 (98)1(1)1 (1)......13(2)19 (9)68 (4222 (13)30 (23)10 (7)..
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Male7222126321256211..4..268671787763..353717 (6)2(2)2 (1)..11..22(1)(2)..2..
Female6222232241275..21..217638433114244..332918 (9)2(2)5 (4)......3(1)131..2(1)1(1)..
Total1344435856241211232..6191211141141019119107..686635 (15)4(47 (5)..113 (1)35(1)6 (2)..4(11 (1)..
Totals112336182547332842041081888871192735853558111713542821196551545682837286368 (236)33 (31)20 (18)4(1)3(1)5 (1)17 (5)14 |6)29 (12)91 (5332 (17)65 (50)55 (41)..

In the above Table, Deaths of Non- Residents occuring at the Infirmary, Mayday Road Hospital, Borough Hospital, General Hospital, Norwood Cottage Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital, etc., are excluded