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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 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Notifiable Disease | Cases Notified At ages • years | Total cases notified in wards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U. Norwood | Norbury | V. Thornton | Ben. Manor | Thornton Heath | S, Norwood | Woods ide | East | Addis combe | Whitehorse M. | Broad Green | Central | Waddon | Addington | Shirley | Sanders tead North | Sanderstead and Selsdon | Woodcote and Coulsdon west | Coulsdon East | Parley | M | F | TOTAL | |||||||||
| At all ages | Under 1 | I -4 | 5 - 14 | I5 - 24 | 25 - 44 | 45 - 64 | 65 & over | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 235 | 163 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 48 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 114 | 121 | 235 | ||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | . | 2 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 14 | ||
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Enteric & Para-typhoic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysenttry | 31 | - | 11 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 31 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pheumonia | 28 | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | 4 | 6 | 11 | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | 6 | - | 2 | - | 1 | _ | _ | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | 5 | 13 | 15 | 28 |
| Food Poisoning | 30 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 10 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 18 | 12 | 30 |
| Acute Encephalitis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Measles ...... | 5076 | 220 | 3152 | 1667 | 18 | 18 | 1 | - | 206 | 132 | 133 | 205 | 311 | 342 | 236 | 137 | 192 | 159 | 141 | 199 | 287 | 948 | 223 | 146 | 204 | 371 | 306 | 198 | 2568 | 2508 | 5076 |
| Whooping Cough | 506 | 74 | 230 | 179 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 28 | 11 | 16 | 37 | 35 | 11 | 28 | 146 | 34 | 10 | 13 | 28 | 13 | 27 | 240 | 266 | 506 |
| 5925 | 298 | 3460 | 2030 | 37 | 48 | 32 | 20 | 218 | 160 | 174 | 229 | 351 | 368 | 278 | 151 | 222 | 201 | 188 | 229 | 337 | 1150 | 271 | 173 | 234 | 410 | 333 | 248 | 2975 | 2950 | 5925 | |
Tuberculosis notifications are shown in the section relating to that disease.