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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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Scarlet Fever.
During the year under report seven hundred and twenty-one
notifications of Scarlet fever were received, compared with eight
hundred and nine during the previous year, shewing a reduction of
eighty-eight cases. Five hundred and sixty-nine were removed to
hospital where fourteen died. Of the cases remaining at home,
most of which were of a very mild type, all recovered. The
corrected mortality rate was 0.08 per 1,000 of the population, with
three exceptions, the lowest in the fifteen South London parishes.
The rate for the Metropolis was 0.09 per 1,000.
The distribution of the cases amongst the eight sanitary districts during the past two years is here given. TABLE XXVIII.
| Sanitary District. | Number of Cases of Scarlet Fever. | |
| 1898. | 1899 | |
| No. 1 | 69 | |
| „ 2 | 123 | |
| „ 3 | 132 | |
| „ 4 | 130 | 89 |
| „ 5 | 74 | 123 |
| „ 6 | 175 | 113 |
| „ 7 „ 8 | 55 51 | 83 50 |
| Whole Parish | 809 | 721 |