Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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TABLE III.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
At Ages—Years. | ||||||||
At all Ages. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25 | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||
Small-pox | 25 | — | 3 | 25 | ||||
Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Diphtheria | 17 | — | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
Membranous Croup | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Erysipelas | 5 | — | — | — | 3 | — | ||
Scarlet Fever ... | 74 | — | 5 | — | 58 | |||
Typhus Fever ... | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Enteric Fever ... | — | — | 4 | 5 | — | 5 | ||
Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Continued Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Plague... | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Chicken-pox | 219 | 14 | 5 | — | — | |||
Totals | 352 | 14 | 115 | 175 | 25 | 97 |
Isolation Hospitals
Croydon Borough Hospital, Waddon.
Croydon and Wimbledon Joint Small-Pox Hospital Cheam.