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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notifiable Diseases during 1950.
| DISEASE | Number of Cases Notified in Various Age Groups | Total Cases Notified | Total Cases removed to Hospital | Total Deaths | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-3 | 3-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 and over | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 4 | 17 | 40 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 68 | 32 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Measles | 9 | 57 | 98 | 186 | 7 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 364 | 9 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 35 | 61 | 70 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 181 | 2 | - |
| Acute Primary or Influenzal Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 20 | - | 25* |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | - | - | 9 | 9 | 1 |
| „ „ (Non-paralytic) | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Dysentery | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 7 | 1 | - | |
| Food Poisoning | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 2 | 7 | - | - |
| TOTALS | 24 | 102 | 181 | 300 | 15 | 10 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 668 | 62 | 28 |
* All forms.