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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: Table showing Ages at Death from Notifiable Infectious Diseases.

Table showing Ages at Death from Notifiable Infectious Diseases.

Disease.Ages at Death.Total Deaths
Under 1 Year1 to 22 to 33 to 44 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 3535 to 4545 to 6565 and over
Smallpox.......................................
Scarlet Fever.......................................
Diphtheria(including Membranous Croup)...............3..................3
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid).......................................
Puerperal Fever.......................................
Puerperal Pyrexia.......................................
Acute Primary Pneumonia1........................181020
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia..............................21517
Cerebro-spinal Fever.......................................
Acute Poliomyelitis.....................1............1
Acute Polio-encephalitis.......................................
Encephalitis Lethargica..............................1...1
Malaria..............................1...1
Dysentery.......................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.......................................
Erysipelas.......................................
Tuberculosis (all forms).....................19711533
totals1............3...298233076

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The figures given in this table are those obtained after
correction by inward and outward transfers of deaths.
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