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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Notifiable Disease | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Bensham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Woodside | East | Addisconbe | Whitehorse Manor | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | South | Addington | Shirley | M | F | ||||||||
| At all ages | Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-14 | 15 - 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet fever | 188 | . | 48 | 129 | 8 | 3 | . | . | 25 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 36 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 100 | 88 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 20 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | . | . | - | - | . | 1 | . | 3 | 1 |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 42 | - | - | - | 13 | 29 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 14 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 13 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 5 | - | 42 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
| Dysentery | 102 | 8 | 29 | 41 | 4 | 17 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | - | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | 4 | - | - | 23 | 59 | 1 | 58 | 44 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 76 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 28 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 40 | 36 |
| Food Poisoning | 64 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 1 | - | 6 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 42 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Measles | 840 | 18 | 384 | 428 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 9 | 23 | 10 | 23 | 48 | 4 | 43 | 14 | 98 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 24 | 492 | 12 | 459 | 381 |
| Whooping Cough | 356 | 51 | 171 | 130 | - | 4 | - | - | 27 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 21 | 39 | 19 | 38 | 38 | 31 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 66 | 6 | 152 | 204 |
| 1697 | 85 | 649 | 742 | 49 | 85 | 51 | 36 | 80 | 29 | 80 | 69 | 95 | 108 | 42 | 112 | 71 | 137 | 39 | 15 | 64 | 74 | 642 | 40 | 849 | 848 | |
The tuberculosis notifications are shown in the section relating to that disease.