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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notifiable diseases during 1956.
| DISEASE | Number of Cases Notified in Various Age Groups | Total Cases Notified | Total Cases removed to Hospital | Total Deaths | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25 and over | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 3 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 59 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 110 | 48 | |
| Measles | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 64 | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 47 | 4 | - | 3 | 82 | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | - | ||||
| „ (Non-paralytic) | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 3 | 12 | 10† | - |
| Dysentery | - | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | 2 | - | 5 | 15 | 9 | - | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | 4 | - | |||
| Pneumonia (Acute Primary or Influenzal) | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 28 | 34 | 2 | 23* |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 2 | - | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| TOTALS | 9 | 7 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 148 | 31 | 15 | 56 | 344 | 84 | 23 |
* All Forms.
† These 10 patients were already in hospital.