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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notifiable diseases during 1958.
| 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 | _ | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 44 | 18 | 1 | — | 80 | 19 | — |
| Measles | 3 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 76 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 134 | — | — |
| Whooping Cough | — | 4 | — | — | 2 | 4 | — | — | — | 10 | — | — |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | 7 | 19 | 18† | — |
| Dysentery | — | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | — | 1 | 4 | 24 | — | — |
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| Pneumonia (Acute Primary or Influenzal) | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 25 | 2 | — |
| Food Poisoning | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 6 | 8 | 3 | — |
| TOTALS | 3 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 21 | 138 | 28 | 20 | 41 | 305 | 46 | — |
* All Forms.
† These 18 patients were already in hospital.