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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1961
| Notifiable Disaeses | Cases notified | Total casern notified In wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | Under 1 | At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Bensham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Woodside | East | Addis con be | Whitehorse Manor | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | South | Addington | Shirley | M | F | ||||||
| 1 - 4 | 5-14 | 15 - 24 | 25 - 44. | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 204 | 1 | 61 | 132 | 10 | - | - | - | 8 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 32 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 21 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 28 | 11 | 122 | 82 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 15 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 9 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Small pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 38 | - | - | - | 17 | 21 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | - | 6 | - | 5 | 2 | - | 38 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | . | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Dysentery | 39 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 6 | - | 16 | 9 | 20 | 19 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 40 | - | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 15 |
| Pood Poisoning | 56 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 24 | 32 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Measles | 4301 | 140 | 2057 | 2065 | 24 | 15 | - | - | 287 | 201 | 269 | 284 | 305 | 167 | 221 | 245 | 318 | 279 | 244 | 100 | 291 | 215 | 516 | 359 | 2117 | 2184 |
| Whooping Cough | 118 | 14 | 53 | 45 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 60 | 58 |
| 4820 | 161 | 2201 | 2272 | 69 | 59 | 45 | 13 | 313 | 230 | 285 | 310 | 363 | 196 | 262 | 273 | 347 | 307 | 281 | 124 | 323 | 236 | 595 | 395 | 2378 | 2442 | |
The tuberculosis notifications ore shown In the section relating to that disease.