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Show informationCroydon 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
T able I.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING YEAR 1945.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in the whole District. | Total cases notified in each Ward. | Total cases removed to Borough Hospital & diagnosis confirmed. | Total Deaths in the Borough. | Sex Distribution 1945. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At ages-years. | Upper Norwood. | Norbury. | West Thornton. | Bensham Manor. | Thornton Heath. | South Norwood. | Woodside. | East. | Addiscombe. | Whitehorse Manor. | Broad Green. | Central. | Waddon. | South. | Addington. | |||||||||||
| Under 1 year. | 1-4. | 5-14. | 15-24. | 25-44. | 45-64. | 65 and up. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 403 | 4 | 107 | 236 | 30 | 22 | 4 | - | 11 | 19 | 26 | 6 | 28 | 21 | 29 | 32 | 50 | 20 | 27 | 17 | 40 | 11 | 66 | - | - | 187 | 216 |
| Diphtheria | 29 | - | 8 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 14 | 15 |
| Erysipelas | 34 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | 16 | 18 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Enteric & Paratyphoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 57 | - | - | - | 26 | 31 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 33 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 57 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 7 |
| Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Dysentery | 50 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 2 | - | 1 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | 26 | 24 |
| Malaria | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - |
| Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 48 | 2 | 2 | 4 | - | 17 | 18 | 5 | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 27 | 21 |
| Measles | 2245 | 99 | 996 | 1062 | 51 | 32 | 5 | - | 109 | 77 | 181 | 158 | 165 | 180 | 255 | 169 | 222 | 155 | 140 | 65 | 151 | 121 | 97 | - | 6 | 1135 | 1110 |
| Whooping Cough | 368 | 50 | 215 | 98 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 18 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 46 | 24 | 50 | 23 | 26 | 27 | 32 | 10 | 33 | 20 | 1 | - | 3 | 188 | 180 |
| Totals | 3262 | 174 | 1350 | 1435 | 117 | 129 | 48 | 9 | 148 | 114 | 283 | 203 | 246 | 235 | 349 | 237 | 313 | 124 | 223 | 104 | 244 | 166 | 173 | - | 21 | 1605 | 1657 |