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Wimbledon 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| Notifiable Disease. | All Ages. | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality (e g. Parish or Ward) of the. District. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wimbledon Park Ward | St. Mary's Ward. | St. John's Ward. | Cottenham Park Ward. | Dundonald Ward. | Trinity Ward. | South Park Ward. | Haydon Park Ward. | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 33 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 28 |
| Erysipelas | 20 | 1 | 3 | — | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Scarlet Fever | 170 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 25 | 19 | 44 | 34 | 26 | 139 |
| Enteric Fever | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | |||||
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 2 |
| - | - | — | - | - | — | - | — | - | ||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 63 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 46 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | 5 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum ... | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 5 | — | 2 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 16 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | — |
| Influenzal Pneumonia | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | - | — | — |
| totals | 324 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 39 | 38 | 88 | 56 | 46 | 232 |
Scarlet Fever.—The total number of cases notified during
the year, was 170 from 135 houses. The attack rate was 2.9 per
thousand of the population. There were 2 deaths, corresponding to a death-rate of .03 per thousand of the population.
| Attack-Rate. | Death-Rate. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1891-1895 | 4.8 | .02 | per thousand of the population. |
| 1896-1900 | 3.3 | .04 | |
| 1901-1905 | 2.3 | .02 | |
| 1906-1910 | 4.07 | .05 | |
| 1911-1915 | 3.03 | .01 | |
| 1916-1920 | 1.8 | .01 | |
| 1921-1925 | 3.04 | .02 | |
In one house there were six cases, in three houses, four
cases, in four houses, three cases, in thirteen houses, two cases,
and in the remaining 114 houses, one case.
138 or 81 per cent. of the cases were treated in the Borough
Isolation Hospital, Gap Road. The disease was of a mild type.
72 per cent, of the cases notified were children of School
age, five to fifteen years, and of these, 113 attended the following
schools:—
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