Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]
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Disease | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total |
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Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Dysentery | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 3 |
Enteric Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 |
Food Poisoning | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
Measles | 2 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 4 | 31 | 2 | 42 | 62 | 54 | 258 |
Meningococcal Infection | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Poliomyelitis— | |||||||||||||
Paralytic | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Non-paralytic | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Pneumonia– | |||||||||||||
Acute Primary | 5 | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | 15 |
Acute Influenzal | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
Scarlet Fever | 3 | 9 | 4 | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | 13 | 3 | 42 |
Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Tuberculosis— | |||||||||||||
Pulmonary | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 29 |
Non-Pulmonary | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 |
Whooping Cough | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 3 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 16 |
Totals | 19 | 27 | 20 | 18 | 19 | 35 | 13 | 36 | 7 | 49 | 79 | 60 | 382 |