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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

Wimbledon 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: Wimbledon Isolation Hospital.

Wimbledon Isolation Hospital.

Carried over from 1927Under 5 years.Over 5 years.Total.Deaths.Remarks.
Under 5 yearsOver 5 years.Total.
Scerlet Fever42226---Daily average number of cases, 57.
Diphtheria73g43---
Cases admitted in 1928.
From Wimbledon Scarlet Fever207696---
Scarlet Fever and Para Typhoid-11-11
Diphtheria24136160246
Diphtheria Contact1-1---Average number of days in hospital, 43
Diphtheria and Appendicitis-11---
Diphtheria and 8carlct Fever-11---
Erysipelas-44---
Measles2-2---
Typhoid Fever-33---
From Kingston. Scarlet Fever154459---Total Kingston cases, 201
Diphtheria20120140268
Encephalitis Lethargica-11-11
Diphtheria and Measles-11_---
From Caterham. Diphtheria-88---
Front Wandsworth. Scarlet Fever-11---
Total Treated in 19289345554841216

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The revenue derived from the admission of patients from
outside areas since 1919 now exceeds £24,000.
479 cases were admitted to the Wimbledon Isolation Hospital
during 1928, making a total of 548 cases under treatment
during the year, 69 cases remaining under treatment from
1927. 269 cases were from Wimbledon, 201 from Kingston,
8 from Caterham, and 1 from Wandsworth.
Scarlet Fever:— 57 cases were admitted as scarlet fever.
Serum treatment was given to all the more serious cases of
Scarlet Fever on admission to hospital. No deaths from
scarlet fever occurred in hospital during the year amongst
the 157 cases treated. The chief complications that arose
were otorrhœ, rhinitis and adenitis. There were two cases
of albuminuria and one case that developed acute nephritis.
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