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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| 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 of Notified Cases. 1946. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 440 | 1 | 90 | 302 | 25 | 18 | 4 | - | 15 | 20 | 29 | 20 | 32 | 41 | 47 | 45 | 30 | 22 | 30 | 24 | 38 | 18 | 29 | 374 | - | 206 | 234 |
| Diphtheria | 36 | - | 5 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | - | 34 | 3 | 11 | 25 |
| Erysipelas | 35 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 11 | 16 | 5 | - | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 11 | - | 13 | 22 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 8 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| Enteric & Paratyphoid | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 3 |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 57 | - | - | - | 14 | 43 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | -1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | - | 15 | - | - | 57 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 4 |
| Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Dysentery | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Malaria | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 64 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 5 | - | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 37 | 27 |
| Measles | 869 | 24 | 397 | 423 | 13 | 11 | 1 | - | 57 | 39 | 97 | 114 | 69 | 51 | 43 | 107 | 51 | 25 | 30 | 25 | 73 | 84 | 4 | 26 | 1 | 425 | 444 |
| Whooping Cough | 368 | 29 | 207 | 128 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 22 | 26 | 30 | 32 | 39 | 24 | 21 | 65 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 40 | 11 | 3 | 191 | 177 |
| Totals | 1895 | 65 | 711 | 880 | 67 | 115 | 43 | 14 | 107 | 93 | 207 | 181 | 154 | 125 | 119 | 225 | 98 | 71 | 86 | 70 | 149 | 136 | 74 | 481 | - | 895 | 1000 |