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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING YEAR 1951.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in the whole District. | Total cases notified in each Ward. | Sex Distribution of Notified Cases. 1951. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Shirley | |||||||||
| Under 1 year. | 1—4. | 5—14. | 15—24. | 25—44. | 45—64. | 65 and up. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 435 | - | 147 270 | 13 | 5 | - | - | 22 | 14 | 23 | 14 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 45 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 27 | 42 | 38 | 57 | 235 | 200 | |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 19 | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Enteric & Paratyphoid | 3 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 2 |
| Small pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 30 | - | - | - | 10 | 20 | - | - | - | 1 | 15 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 30 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 9 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Dysentery | 79 | 3 | 19 | 24 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | - | 8 | 6 | 16 | 6 | - | 6 | 42 | 37 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 62 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 5 | 17 | 1 | - | 9 | 4 | 8 | - | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 29 | 33 |
| Food Poisoning | 39 | - | 4 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 8 | - | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 16 | 23 |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 4490 | 115 | 2421 | 189 | 30 | 25 | 2 | - | 223 | 241 | 327 | 276 | 249 | 269 | 273 | 390 | 213 | 313 | 219 | 173 | 376 | 205 | 421 | 322 | 2250 | 2240 |
| Whooping Cough | 699 | 63 | 368 | 257 | 4 | 6 | - | 1 | 17 | 27 | 49 | 27 | 25 | 35 | 43 | 79 | 24 | 48 | 41 | 23 | 59 | 30 | 134 | 38 | 344 | 355 |
| Totals | 5868 | 186 | 2966 | 2464 | 78 | 112 | 36 | 26 | 272 | 288 | 433 | 335 | 336 | 338 | 354 | 532 | 258 | 390 | 300 | 220 | 488 | 295 | 597 | 432 | 2932 | 2936 |
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES