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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1900
| Notifiable Disease | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Ben sham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Woodside | East | Addiscombe | Whitehorse Manor | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | South | Addington | Shirley | M | F. | |||||||
| Under 1 | 1-4 | 5-14 | J5-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65 and over | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 337 | 1 | 99 | 230 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 27 | 13 | 23 | 17 | 43 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 58 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 19 | 182 | 155 | |
| Diphtheria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 17 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | - | _ | - | 2 | 2 |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | 6 | _ | 2 | _ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | _ | 1 | - | - | 3 | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | - | _ | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 12 | - | - | - | 8 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | - | 12 | ||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 13 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 7 | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 8 | |||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 181 | 1 | 46 | 80 | 8 | 38 | 8 | - | 6 | 26 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 4 | 39 | 6 | 92 | 89 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primaryary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 28 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 8 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 18 |
| Food Poisoning | 23 | - | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 10 | 13 | |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 129 | 5 | 90 | 30 | 2 | 2 | - | 16 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 9 | - | 8 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 89 | 60 | ||
| Whooping cough | 481 | 55 | 184 | 235 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 35 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 70 | 16 | 10 | 36 | 31 | 42 | 18 | 11 | 21 | 12 | 80 | 41 | 24 2 | 239 |
| 1231 | 77 | 430 | 590 | 34 | 61 | 33 | 6 | 87 | 76 | 62 | 82 | 155 | 63 | 35 | 70 | 62 | 76 | 111 | 34 | 67 | 47 | 150 | 74 | 624 | 607 | |
The tuberculosis notifications are shown In the section relating to that disease