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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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TABLE 14.
A dmission to I solation H ospitals , 1950.
| Disease. | Cuddington. | Croydon. | Bletchingley. | West Kent. | Bromley and Beckenham. | Western. | Wandle Valley. | The Grove. | Park. | Brook. | South Middlesex. | Queen Mary's. | Tolworth. | St. Helier. | South Western. | Godstone. | Totals. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 19 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 3 | 103 | |
| Scarlet Fever and Chicken-Pox | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Encephalitis Post Infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Poliomyelitis Non-Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Paratyphoid "B" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
| Whooping Cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
| Measles | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 18 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 33 | |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 6 | |
| Measles and Pneumonia | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Chicken-pox | 10 | 5 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | |
| Mumps | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | |
| Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Tonsilitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
| Others | 4 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 11 | ||
| Totals | 47 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 65 | 36 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 203 | |