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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 1938

[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 2 to to 2 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)...............2..................2
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid).......................................
Puerperal Fever....................................
Puerperal Pyrexia....................................
Acute Primary Pneumonia2........................27920
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia..............................314
Cerebro Spinal Fever1.................................1
Acute Poliomyelitis.......................................
Acute Polio-encephalitis.......................................
Encephalitis Lethargica..........................................
Malaria.......................................
Dysentery.......................................
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum.......................................
Erysipelas.................................11
Tuberculosis (all forms).....................110115431
Totals3............2...11013151559

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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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