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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 XXIX.
| Month. | Number of Cases of Enteric Fever. |
| January | 12 |
| February | 7 |
| March (5 weeks) | 6 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 3 |
| June (5 weeks) | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 15 |
| September (5 weeks) | 15 |
| October | 33 |
| November | 33 |
| December (5 weeks) | 27 |
| Whole Year | 157 |
The disease is shewn to be most prevalent in the months
of October and November, a circumstance common to that
time of the year, but not recently to the same extent. For
freedom from the disease the month of June shows the excellent
record of one case only in a period of five weeks.
The following Table shews the distribution of the cases
in the various Sanitary Districts, and in view of the differences
of population, is more equal than may at first sight appear:—