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Wimbledon 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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CORRECTED NOTIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1962.
| Wimbledon | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 Home Population | ||
| Notifications:- (Corrected) | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 0.29 | 0.32 |
| Whooping Cough | 0.12 | 0.17 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | - | 0.00 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | - | 0.00 |
| Erysipelas | - | 0.03 |
| Smallpox | - | 0.00 |
| Measles | 2.1 | 3.95 |
| Pneumonia | 0.15 | 0.26 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis - | ||
| Paralytic | - | 0.00 |
| Non-paralytic | - | 0.00 |
| Food poisoning | 0.01 | 0.11 |
| Dysentery | 0.01 | 0.57 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 0.02 |
| Tuberculosis - | ||
| Pulmonary | 0.38 | 0.38 |
| Non-pulmonary | 0.03 | 0.05 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5.301 | 8.02* |
* Per 1,000 total (live and still) birth#.
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