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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notifiable Diseases during 1949.
| DISEASE | Number of Cases Notified in Various Age Groups | Total Cases Notified | Total Cases removed to Hospital | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 and over | |||
| Scarlet Fever | _ | 6 | 13 | 23 | 4 | 6 | 3 | — | — | 55 | 31 |
| Diphtheria | — | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 6 | 6 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 3 | — | — | 8 | 5 |
| Measles | 16 | 173 | 181 | 317 | 5 | 6 | 9 | — | — | 707 | 9 |
| Whooping Cough | 8 | 54 | 38 | 45 | 2 | — | 2 | — | — | 149 | — |
| Acute Primary or Influenzal Pneumonia | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 1 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 9 | 8 |
| Polioencephalitis | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 27 | 237 | 236 | 397 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 4 | 8 | 969 | 66 |