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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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The distribution of scarlet fever is shown in the following table.
TABLE 17
SCARLET FEVER—WARD INCIDENCE, 1938.
| WARD | Cases | Rate per 1,000 population. |
|---|---|---|
| St. Helier North | 69 | 7.93 |
| St. Helier South | 47 | 6.44 |
| St. Helier West | 38 | 4.71 |
| North-East | 34 | 4.18 |
| North-West | 12 | 1.61 |
| Central | 10 | 1.54 |
| South-East | 6 | 0.83 |
| South-West | 11 | 1.58 |
| Whole District | 227 | 3.87 |
The seasonal prevalence is given in Table 18.
TABLE 18.
SCARLET FEVER—MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION, 1938.
| 1938 | Ward | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helier North | St. Helier South | St.Helier West | North-East | North-West | Central | South-East | South-West | ||
| January | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 23 |
| February | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | – | 4 | l | 1 | 18 |
| March | 2 | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 10 |
| April | 5 | 4 | – | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
| May | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 17 |
| June | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 1 | 13 |
| July | 6 | 5 | 4 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 2 | 21 |
| August | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
| September | 9 | 3 | 4 | 6 | – | – | – | 1 | |
| October | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 20 |
| November | 10 | 5 | 9 | 3 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 30 |
| December | 11 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 26 |
| Totals | 69 | 47 | 38 | 34 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 227 |
| Monthly Mean | 5.8 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 10 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 18.9 |