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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 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| East | Broad Green | Waddon | TOTAL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1-4 | 5-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65 & over | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Scarlet Fever | 100 | - | 28 | 63 | 9 | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | - | 1 | 16 | 17 | - | 8 | - | 1 | 5 | 49 | 51 | 100 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Meningitis | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
| Typhoid and Para- Typhoid | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 13 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Malaria | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Infective Jaundice | 32 | - | - | 7 | 5 | 1 1 | 8 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 20 | 12 | 3? |
| Food Poisoning | 15 | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | - | 9 | 6 | 15 | ||
| Acute Encephalitis | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Measles | 498 | 21 | 227 | 240 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 41 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 43 | 43 | 71 | 16 | 3 | 1 1 | 1 1 | 12 | 26 | 109 | 32 | 2 | 31 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 255 | 243 | 498 |
| Whooping Cough | 50 | 7 | 29 | 13 | 1 | _ | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 29 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | 28 | 22 | 50 |
| Leptospirosis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Tetanus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Vellow Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| - | 728 | 34 | 290 | 337 | 34 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 50 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 56 | 54 | 81 | 27 | 1 1 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 31 | 158 | 57 | 5 | 48 | 16 | 7 | 17 | 377 | 351 | 728 |
Tuberculosis notifications are shown in the section relating to that disease