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in other infectious diseases, the nurses are cautioned against
attending any further midwifery cases for a period of at
least six weeks, the absence of such precautions being formerly
the most common source of infection.
Erysipelas.
Two hundred and four notifications were received concerning
Erysipelas, the majority being Traumatic, i.e., due to wounds,
&c. Fifty-four cases were removed to hospitals, principally the
Union Infirmary. Seventeen deaths were recorded, sixteen
occurring at the homes of the patients, and one at hospital.
The number of cases represents an increase upon that of
the year 1898, and a decrease upon that of 1897. The term
Erysipelas covers so many forms and degrees of inflammatory
affections, that further discussion on the subject would not be
profitable.
TUBERCULAR DISEASES
including
Phthisis or Consumption.
The subject, concerning as it does a disease which it is
now generally considered should be included amongst the
zymotic diseases, has, during the year under report, excited
particular action and interest in all sections of the community in
all parts of the country.
Mortality. During the year, three hundred and sixty-eight deaths
were recorded in Battersea from Tubercular Diseases, of these,
however, forty-six were non-parishioners, dying in the Wandsworth
and Clapham Union Infirmary. In addition, forty-nine
parishioners died in outlying institutions, &c., producing a
corrected total of three hundred and seventy-one parishioners
dying from this class of disease. Of these, three hundred were
due to phthisis, or general tuberculosis, and seventy-one to
tuberculosis of the brain, stomach, joints, &c.
The following Table shews the mortality rates for London,
and its Sanitary are s during the year under report:—