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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 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notifiable diseases during 1952.
| DISEASE | Number of Cases Notified in Various Age Groups | Total Cases Notified | Total Cases removed to Hospital | Total Deaths | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65 and over | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 10 | 25 | 83 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 128 | 46 | |
| Measles | 7 | 54 | 87 | 170 | 4 | 8 | 7 | - | - | 337 | 9 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 28 | 26 | 49 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 112 | 1 | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| „ „ (Non-paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 5 | 4 | - |
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 2 | - | 3 | 4 | - | 36 | 1 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - |
| Pneumonia (Acute Primary or Influenzal) | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 24 | - | 34* |
| TOTALS | 16 | 93 | 140 | 328 | 11 | 19 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 649 | 63 | 34 |
* All forms.