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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Infective Diseases. 15
TABLE X.
Notifiable Diseases. | Total. | No. of CASES of Infectious Diseases grouped in Age Periods. | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 15 | 15 and upwards | Under 1 | 1—2 | 2—3 | 3—4 | 4—5 | 5—10 | 10—15 | 15—20 | 20—35 | 35—45 | 1 45—65 | 65 and upwards | ||
Small-pox | 15 | 2 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - |
Diphtheria | 724 | 614 | 110 | 8 | 22 | 24 | 56 | 49 | 338 | 117 | 45 | 50 | 8 | 6 | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 899 | 702 | 197 | 3 | 17 | 26 | 45 | 68 | 376 | 167 | 84 | 81 | 24 | 7 | 1 |
Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 11 | 3 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | - |
Puerperal Fever | 20 | - | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 17 | 2 | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 29 | - | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 24 | 4 | - | - |
Erysipelas | 162 | 24 | 138 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 63 | 25 |
Whooping Cough | 2590 | 2572 | 18 | 266 | 260 | 265 | 312 | 364 | 1072 | 33 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | - |
Pneumonia:— | |||||||||||||||
Acute Influenzal | 266 | 32 | 234 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 53 | 57 | 82 | 35 |
Acute Primary | 497 | 210 | 287 | 36 | 38 | 21 | 11 | 58 | 13 | 24 | 76 | 49 | 85 | 53 | |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | |
Polio-myelitis | 6 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 5 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
Malaria | 6 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - |
Dysentery | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Total | 5246 | 4179 | 1067 | 326 | 343 | 357 | 440 | 497 | 1872 | 344 | 181 | 340 | 174 | 257 | 115 |