London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 | WARDS | Case Rate per 1,000 population (Mid-year) | Case Rate per l,000 England and Wales | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. | N.W. | N.E. | W.C. | E. C. | E. | S.W. | S.E. | S. | TOTAL | |||
| Population:- | 9719 | 8654 | 11008 | 12171 | 7160 | 7766 | 7469 | 5971 | 8902 | 78820 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 4 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 65 | 0.82 | 0.74 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 9 | - | 11 | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 21 | 0.27 | 0.59 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 5 | 0.06 | 0.10 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 5 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 0.22 | 1.09 |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 12 | 0.15 | 0.07 |
| Meningococcal infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.00 | 0,03 |
| Post-infectious Encephalitis | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.01 | |
| Malaria (contracted abroad) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.01 | - |
| Measles | 9 | 7 | 42 | 5 | 32 | 55 | 28 | 37 | 54 | 269 | 3.41 | 3.59 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 12 | 11 | - | 66 | 0.84 | 2.07 |
| TOTALS | 23 | 22 | 74 | 42 | 45 | 83 | 57 | 63 | 61 | 470 | ||