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Carshalton 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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TABLE 18.
WHOOPING COUGH-WARD INCIDENCE AND MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION
1947.
(Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton.)
| 1947. | Ward. | Total. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helier North. | St. Helier South. | St. Helier West. | NorthEast. | NorthWest. | Central. | SouthEast. | SouthWest. | ||
| January | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| February | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | - | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| March | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | - | 2 | 3 | 24 |
| April | - | 4 | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | 2 | 12 |
| May | 3 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 21 |
| June | 4 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| July | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 21 |
| August | 6 | - | 5 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 19 |
| September | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
| October | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| November | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 11 |
| December | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 7 |
| Totals | 34 | 13 | 22 | 30 | 28 | 10 | 23 | 21 | 181 |
| Monthly Mean | 2.83 | 1.08 | 1.83 | 2.50 | 2.33 | 0.83 | 1.91 | 1.75 | 15.08 |
| Case rate per 1,000 population | 3.97 | 1.84 | 2.70 | 3.22 | 3.83 | 1.64 | 3.12 | 3.15 | 2.99 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.
Three cases were notified in male adults of 19, 22 and 55 years.
All were admitted to isolation hospital, where the diagnosis was confirmed
in the case of two of them. In the third, the youth of 19 in
H.M. Forces, the clinical picture resembled that of a series of cases
which occurred in the latter half of 1946 in the London area and which
have been described as meningo-encephalitis.
All three cases recovered after modern chemo-therapy.
Anterior Poliomyelitis and Encephalitis.
The epidemic wave of Poliomyelitis which swept the country in the
summer and autumn, gave rise to 15 cases of this infection in the Urban
District.
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