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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
Wandsworth 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Infective Diseases.
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 | 45—65 | 65 and upwards | ||
| Small-pox | 9 | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Diphtheria | 866 | 690 | 176 | 13 | 27 | 33 | 59 | 68 | 349 | 141 | 61 | 89 | 18 | 8 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 981 | 792 | 189 | 5 | 23 | 32 | 62 | 85 | 453 | 132 | 64 | 102 | 18 | 5 | - |
| Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 27 | 5 | 22 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 4 | 10 | 6 | — | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | 13 | — | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 9 | 3 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 28 | — | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 23 | 2 | - | |
| Erysipelas | 150 | 17 | 133 | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 69 | 26 |
| Whooping Cough | 809 | 801 | 8 | 66 | 73 | 61 | 111 | 127 | 353 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | — |
| Pneumonia :— | |||||||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal | 29 | 5 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 |
| Acute Primary | 468 | 163 | 305 | 37 | 21 | 26 | 17 | 9 | 40 | 13 | 19 | 72 | 62 | 92 | 60 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | - | - |
| Polio-myelitis | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 3 | — | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | 2 | 1 |
| Malaria | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | — | - | 1 | - | - |
| Dysentery | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Total | 3391 | 2477 | 914 | 126 | 149 | 154 | 253 | 291 | 1202 | 302 | 161 | 331 | 136 | 192 | 94 |