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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 1966
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Notifiable Disease | At all ages | Cases Notified | Total cases notified in wards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At ages - years | Upper Norwood | Norbury | West Thornton | Bens ham Manor | Thornton Heath | South Norwood | Woodside | East | Addiscombe | White horse Manor | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | Addington | Shirley | Sanderstead North | Sanderstead and Selsdon | Woodcote and Coulsdon West | Coulsdon East | Purley | M | F | TOTAL | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 - 4 | 5 - 14 | 25- 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 & over | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthrax | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Scarlet Fever | 158 | 1 | 56 | 93 | 7 | 1 | –- | –- | 8 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 12 | .4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 82 | 76 | 158 | |
| Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Erysipelas | 11 | - | – | – | - | 2 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 10 | 11 | |||
| Meningococcal Infectio | 11 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Enteric & Para-typhoid | 2 | - | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Typhus | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 9 | - | - | 5 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Dysentery | 186 | 8 | 55 | 63 | 7 | 53 | - | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 5 | - | 1 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 62 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 91 | 95 | 186 | ||
| Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 51 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | – | 5 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 21 | 51 | ||
| Food Poisoning | 25 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 9 | - | 6 | – | 6 | - | 5 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 25 | |||||||||
| Acute Encephalitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Measles | 1768 | 52 | 956 | 742 | 14 | 4 | - | 65 | 52 | 102 | 105 | 41 | 44 | 81 | 122 | 41 | 55 | 147 | 25 | 104 | 175 | 322 | 39 | 23 | 28 | 103 | 94 | 890 | 878 | 1768 | |
| Whooping Cough | 75 | 6 | 41 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | - | - | 7 | 4 | 38 | 37 | 75 | |
| 2286 | 72 | 1117 | 930 | 42 | 78 | 26 | 21 | 86 | 68 | 119 | 133 | 76 | 72 | 98 | 137 | 55 | 71 | 165 | 39 | 132 | 271 | 365 | 58 | 40 | 58 | 118 | 125 | 1148 | 1138 | 2286 | |
The tuberculosis notifications are shown in the section relating to that disease