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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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TABLE 21.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Notification by Age Groups, 1947. (Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton.)
| Disease. | Total Cases Notified. | Total Cases at all Ages | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-20 | 20-35 | 35-45 | 45-65 | 65 and over | ||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 83 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Measles | 7 | 24 | 18 | 26 | 13 | 35 | 12 | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 145 |
| Whooping Cough | 13 | 23 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 55 | 10 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 181 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| Poliomyelitis | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 13 |
| Polioencephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| Pneumonia | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 13 | 71 |
| Peuperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 10 |