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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Table showing the death-rate from Zymotic Diseases, including Tuberculous Diseases, for the last ten years.
| YEAR. | Zymotic Death-rate. | Death-Rate From | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | "Fever." | Whooping Cough. | Measles. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis and other Tuberc'los Diseases. | ||
| 1921 | .63 | — | .01 | .22 | 01 | 06 | - | .3 | .79 |
| 1922 | 1.06 | — | .oo | 1 | — | 08 | 00 | .05 | .76 |
| 1923 | 1.00 | — | .05 | 08 | — | .06 | 06 | .08 | .63 |
| 1924 | 1.10 | — | .06 | 01 | 01 | 05 | .15 | 05 | .75 |
| 1925 | 1.01 | — | 03 | 01 | — | 1 | — | .08 | .77 |
| 1926 | .706 | — | — | — | — | — | 103 | — | .6 |
| 1927 | .94 | — | 01 | 03 | — | .05 | — | 03 | .8 |
| 1928 | 1.10 | — | — | .1 | — | 08 | .11 | 03 | .7 |
| 1929 | 1.06 | .01 | _ | .1 | — | .08 | — | 05 | .8 |
| 1980 | .99 | — | — | 06 | - | .03 | .16 | .03 | .69 |
The figures given in theis table are those obtained after correction
by exclusion of "Non-Residents" and the inclusion
of "Residents" beyond the district.
Table showing the Ward Distribution of Infectious cases
notified in 1930, and the numbers removed to hospital.
| Notifiable Disease. | All Ages. | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality (e g. Parish or Ward) of the. District | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary's Ward' | Wimbledon Park Ward | St. John's Ward. | Cotteuhain Park Ward. | Dundonald Ward. | Trinity Ward. | South Park Ward. | Haydon Park Ward. | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||
| Diphtheria (including Mem | ||||||||||
| branous croup' | 140 | 7 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 46 | 17 | 20 | 137 |
| Erysipelas | 29 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| Scarlet Fever | 127 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 24 | 30 | 24 | 18 | 111 |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | a | — | 4 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 56 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 18 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 5 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | _ |
| Pneumonia | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | _ |
| Influenzal Pneumonia | 1 | — | — | — | — | _ | I | _ | _ | _ |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 9 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | a | 7 |
| Small-pox | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | l | a |
| Para-Typhoid | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | l | a |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | - | - | — |
| totals | 404 | 33 | 32 | 14 | 26 | 71 | 105 | 64 | 59 | 294 |