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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1962
| Notifiable Disease | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | Vest 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 | 5 - 14 | 15 - 24 | 25 • 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 140 | - | 36 | 107 | 3 | - | - | 4 | 3 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 70 | 79 | |||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | _ | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 4 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 0 | - | - | - | 3 | 6 | _ | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | _ | 1 | _ | - | 2 | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | _ | - | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Dysentery | 50 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | - | 9 | 3 | 1 | - | 7 | 3 | - | 2 | 3 | - | _ | _ | 3 | - | 15 | 4 | 25 | 25 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 30 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 15 | |
| Food Poisoning | 38 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 4 | 5 | 5 | _ | _ | 3 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | 18 | |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | _ | - | - | - | _ | _ | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 848 | 34 | 409 | 309 | 6 | - | - | - | 82 | 78 | 69 | 32 | 51 | 19 | 48 | 77 | 26 | 40 | 51 | 68 | 34 | 25 | 102 | 48 | 457 | 391 |
| Whooping Cough | 51 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 4 | 1 | 7 | - | 6 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 29 | 22 |
| 1183 | 46 | 491 | 58 | 30 | 25 | 19 | 14 | l05 | 88 | 82 | 57 | 9 1 | 41 | 60 | 89 | 53 | 68 | 61 | 79 | 59 | 36 | 14 7 | 67 | 6 17 | 566 | |
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The tuberculosis notifications are shown In the section relating to that disease