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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

Battersea 1899

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1899

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Table: TABLE XXIII. Prevalence of Notifiable Infectious Disease and Mortality therefrom.

TABLE XXIII. Prevalence of Notifiable Infectious Disease and Mortality therefrom.

No. of Cases notified.No. of cases removed to Hospital.Deaths at home. ( Parishioners.)Deaths at Hospital.Total Deaths during Year under Report.Total Deaths during Preceding Year (1898.)
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever721569...141428
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup606449214263120
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever15712410293915
Relapsing Fever..................
Puerperal Fever1447...76
Cholera..................
Erysipelas204541611718
Totals.1,7021,2005486140187

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number of notifications. Again the lines in the months of
June, July, and August are almost identical in their variations.
Another very marked feature of the chart is that the Diphtheria
line for the first nine months of the year, fluctuates in almost
exactly the same manner as does the line indicating" all