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Battersea 1904
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1904
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TABLE XIII.
| Year. | No. of Notifications received. | Notifications per 1,000 of the population. | Percentage of cases removed to hospital. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | 1845 | 11.5 | 43.0 |
| 1895 | 1657 | 10.1 | 40.5 |
| 1896 | 1929 | 11.6 | 46.8 |
| 1897 | 2569 | 15.4 | 52.5 |
| 1898 | 1887 | 11.3 | 62.9 |
| 1899 | 1702 | 10.1 | 70.5 |
| 1900 | 1231 | 7.3 | 68.9 |
| 1901 | 1148 | 6.7 | 72.1 |
| 1902 | 1597 | 9.3 | 78.0 |
| 1903 | 1003 | 5.7 | 74.6 |
| Average 1894-1903 | 1656 | 9.9 | 60.9 |
| 1904 | 801 | 4.5 | 71.6 |
In the above table the chicken-pox notifications are
excluded.
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 |
| 1904 | ,, ,, | 171 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5 |
The amount paid to medical practitioners for notification
certificates of cases of chicken-pox in 1904 was £67 6s.
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.