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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton and Cheam]
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| Disease | AGE IN YEARS | TOTALS | Removed to Hospital | Died * | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 35 | 45 | Over 65 | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 2 | 5 | 1 | _- | 46 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 65 | 14 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 1 | - | - | 11 | - | - |
| Pneumonia | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 24 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | 2 | - | 17 | 5 | - |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 12 | 11 | - |
| Meningococcal infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Post-infectious Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Malaria (contracted abroad) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Measles | 7 | 15 | 22 | 31 | 31 | 142 | 14 | - | 6 | - | 1 | - | 269 | 5 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 31 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 66 | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | - | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 30 | 30 | - |
| Measles | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | - |
*Under column "Died", all deaths, whether notified in the district
or outside it, or not notified at all, are included.