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.
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 | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | |
Diphtheria | 393 | 317 | 76 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 38 | 32 | 139 | 61 | 25 | 33 | 14 | 3 | 1 | |
Scarlet Fever | 678 | 560 | 118 | 4 | 24 | 29 | 52 | 54 | 276 | 121 | 41 | 62 | 12 | 3 | - | |
Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever | 7 | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | |
Puerperal Fever | 21 | - | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 3 | - | - | |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 24 | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 21 | 2 | - | - | |
Erysipelas | 133 | 11 | 122 | 5 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 56 | 36 | |
Whooping Cough | 1936 | 1921 | 15 | 183 | 193 | 216 | 219 | 326 | 746 | 38 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Pneumonia:— | ||||||||||||||||
Acute Influenza] | 92 | 9 | 83 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | - | 4 | 22 | 15 | 22 | 20 | |
Acute Primary | 463 | 166 | 297 | 44 | 32 | 13 | 20 | 13 | 32 | 12 | 19 | 62 | 57 | 95 | 64 | |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
Polio-myelitis | 3 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
Malaria | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | |
Dysentery | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
Total | 3767 | 2993 | 774 | 243 | 266 | 291 | 333 | 426 | 1201 | 233 | 94 | 253 | 121 | 184 | 122 |