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Wimbledon 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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CORRECTED NOTIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1963
| Wimbledon | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 Home Population | ||
| Notifications:- (Corrected) | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 0.66 | 0.37 |
| Whooping Cough | 0.40 | 0.73 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | – | 0.01 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | – | 0.00 |
| Erysipelas | – | 0.03 |
| Smallpox | – | – |
| Measles | 11.40 | 12.78 |
| Pneumonia | 0.19 | 0.30 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis -Paralytic | – | 0.00 |
| Non-paralytic | – | 0.00 |
| Food Poisoning | 0.03 | 0.12 |
| Dysentery | 0.47 | 0.67 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | – | 0.02 |
| Tuberculosis -Pulmonary | 0.24 | 0.34 |
| Non-pulmonary | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 10.34 1 | 7.44 * |
* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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