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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
Sutton and Cheam 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The following examinations of specimens were made at Laboratories :—
| Diphtheria | Enteric | Tuberculosis | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative |
| — | 18 | — | 6 | 1 | 15 |
Diphtheria swabs are also taken by the School Nurses and
sent to the County Laboratory; these are not included in the
above table.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (Other Than Tuberculosis) DURING 1949.
| Disease | Under 1 year | 1 year | 2 years | 3 years | 4 years | 5 years | 10 years | 15 years | 20 years | 35 years | 45 years | 65 years | Totals | Removed to Hospital | *Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | 14 | 11 | 18 | 96 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 167 | 103 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Para-typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 49 | 1 | 28 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | - | |
| Cerebrospinal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Measles | 9 | 41 | 43 | 60 | 55 | 137 | 9 | 6 | 6 | - | 1 | - | 367 | 11 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 15 | 20 | 31 | 27 | 29 | 81 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 219 | 13 | - |
| - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
* Under column "Died," all deaths, whether notified in the district or
outside it, or not notified at all, are included.
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