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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 196 4
| Notifiable Disease | Cases notified | Total cases notified in wards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thorn ton | Bensham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Roodside | East | Addiscoabe | Whitehorse Manor | Broad Green | Central | Vaddon | South | Addington | Shirley | M | F | Total | |||||||
| Under 1 | 1 - 4 | 5-14 | 15 - 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 142 | 1 | 44 | 93 | 4 | - | - | - | 11 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 74 | 142 | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 14 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | 6 | 14 | |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 10 | - | - | - | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 103 | 2 | 22 | 46 | 8 | 18 | 7 | - | 15 | 2 | - | 5 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 23 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 9 | - | 55 | 48 | 103 |
| Malaria | — | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 13 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| Food Poisoning | 65 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 12 | - | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | 28 | 37 | 65 |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 1456 | 39 | 661 | 745 | 7 | 4 | - | - | 66 | 82 | 40 | 87 | 147 | 196 | 82 | 41 | 1ll | 28 | 41 | 15 | 27 | 28 | 316 | 149 | 787 | 669 | 1456 |
| Whooping Cough | 3 28 | 30 | 147 | 144 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 17 | 18 | 22 | 7 | 41 | 23 | 15 | 21 | 27 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 36 | 14 | 27 | 18 | 151 | 177 | 328 |
| 2131 | 74 | 890 | 1041 | 45 | 41 | 26 | 14 | 118 | 112 | 72 | 116 | 215 | 239 | 136 | 84 | 191 | 43 | 74 | 41 | 81 | 57 | 379 | 173 | 1108 | 1023 | 2131 | |
The tuberculosis notifications are shown In the section relating to that disease
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