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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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14 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1932.
TABLE XI.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total CASES of Infectious Diseases occurring in each Locality. | Total Cases occurring. | Number admitted into Hospital. | Total Deaths. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||||
| Small-pox | 8 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 12 | |
| Diphtheria | 73 | 17 | 40 | 49 | 29 | 115 | 323 | 316 | 16 |
| Scarlet Fever | 161 | 84 | 146 | 96 | 104 | 172 | 763 | 655 | 4 |
| Enteric and Para-typhoid Fevers | — | 3 | — | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 10 | 3 | 2 | 8 | — | 8 | 31 | 19 | 3 |
| Erysipelas | 15 | 14 | 20 | 17 | 34 | 36 | 136 | 53 | 8 |
| *Whooping Cough | 52 | 45 | 100 | 48 | 59 | 238 | 542 | 25 | 17 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal | 12 | 16 | 20 | 19 | 29 | 42 | 138 | — | 30 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Primary | 61 | 25 | 55 | 48 | 59 | 179 | 427 | — | 66 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Polio-myelitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 6 | 5 | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Malaria .. .. .. | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 15 | — | — |
| Total | 400 | 213 | 391 | 296 | 326 | 810 | 2436 | 1122 | 155 |
| Tuberculosis—all forms | 92 | 82 | 81 | 119 | 121 | 174 | 669 | — | 288 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 35 | 16 | — |
| Total | 101 | 85 | 90 | 121 | 123 | 184 | 704 | 16 | 288 |
| Grand Total | 501 | 298 | 481 | 417 | 449 | 994 | 3140 | 1138 | 443 |