Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Notifiable Disease | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | M | F | |||||||
Under 1 | 1-4 | I5-14 | 15-24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | ||||||||||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 168 | - | 43 | 116 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 10 | 25 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 86 | 82 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 29 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 4 | - | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 10 |
Meningococcal Infection | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 4 | 4 | |
Enteric and Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 47 | - | - | - | 16 | 31 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 34 | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 47 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 26 | - | 8 | 11 | - | 7 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 11 | - | 10 | 16 |
Dysentery | 334 | 13 | 90 | 123 | 26 | 76 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | 285 | 2 | 159 | 175 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 58 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 29 | |
Food Poisoning | 40 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 21 |
Acute Encephalitis | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | ||
Measles | 852 | 26 | 395 | 421 | ! 8 | 2 | - | - | 16 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 88 | 56 | 97 | 37 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 342 | 144 | 441 | 411 | |
Whooping Cough | 405 | 34 | 186 | 180 | - | 5 | - | - | 16 | 17 | 38 | 16 | 37 | 3 4 | 28 | 18 | 38 | 20 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 16 | 58 | 27 | 176 | 2 29 |
1978 | 88 | 738 | 867 | 64 | 144 | 44 | 33 | 52 | 56 | 52 | 72 | 100 | 137 | 84 | 55 | 47 | 27 | 45 | 62 | 721 | 185 | 950 | 1028 |