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Wimbledon 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Notifiable diseases during 1955.

DISEASENumber of Cases Notified in Various Age GroupsTotal Cases NotifiedTotal Cases removed to HospitalTotal Deaths
Under 11-23-45-910-1415-2425-4445-6465 and over
Scarlet Fever--6755727726
Measles2213719443511284- .8131-
Whooping Cough121837692-1--139--
Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic)11111-1---66-
„ „ (Non-paralytic)-1-2-11--55-
Meningococcal Infection------------
Puerperal Pyrexia-----43--75†-
Dysentery------2--2-
Paratyphoid Fever------------
Erysipelas----11-22-
Pneumonia (Acute Primary or Influenzal)1-1144821118*
Food Poisoning-------2-2--
Ophthalmia Neonatorum------------
TOTALS361632405632111211181,0744518

* All Forms.
† These 5 patients were already in hospital.