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Battersea 1902
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1903
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In the above table the Chicken-pox notifications are
excluded.
The largest number of notifications received during any
one week was 35, and this occurred in the fourth week of the
year. The lowest number notified was 9, this being the
number notified in the thirty-third week.
The cost of the notification of infectious disease in Battersea in each year since 1891 is given below :—
| Year. | Amount paid to Medical Practitioners. | Cost per 1,000 Population. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £. | s. | d. | £. | s. | d. | |
| 1891 | 150 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 10 |
| 1892 | 224 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
| 1893 | 321 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 1894 | 208 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1895 | 197 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 1896 | 229 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 1897 | 310 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 |
| 1898 | 229 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
| 1899 | 203 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 1900 | 146 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 5 |
| 1901 | 136 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| 1902 (including Chicken-pox) | 343 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1903 „ „ | 137 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 |
The amount paid to medical practitioners for notification
certificates of cases of Chicken-pox was ₤5 12s.
The notification fees are repaid to the Sanitary Authorities
by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Table XIV. gives the number of cases of each of the
notifiable diseases in each week of the year, and the same
information is recorded in a graphic form on the chart-