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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
Carshalton 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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Section F.—Prevalence of and Control
over Infectious and other Diseases.
Where notifications were received in respect of Queen Mary's
Hospital for Children, separate figures are given in this section
relating to that institution. Queen Mary's is a London County
Council Hospital with a patient population of more than 1,000
children, all of whom are admitted exclusively from London and
whose contact is almost entirely limited to visitors from the
metropolis. A truer picture of the prevalence of infectious disease
in the resident population of Carshalton is thereby presented.
Notification.
The following diseases are notifiable in the district :—
| Smallpox | Relapsing or | Dysentery |
| Cholera | Continued Fever | Acute Primary |
| Diphtheria | Cerebro-Spinal | Pneumonia |
| Membranous | Fever | Acute Influenzal |
| Croup | Acute | Pneumonia |
| Erysipelas | Poliomyelitis | Acute Encephalitis |
| Scarlatina or | Ophthalmia | Lethargica |
| Scarlet Fever | Neonatorum | Acute Polio- |
| Typhus Fever | Puerperal Pyrexia | Encephalitis |
| Typhoid Fever | Tuberculosis | Food Poisoning. |
| Enteric Fever | Malaria | |
Smallpox.
The district has been free from variola infection for the last
5 years.
Enteric Fever.
One case of enteric fever, a member of the nursing staff of Queen
Mary's Hospital, was notified. The diagnosis was based on a
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