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Battersea 1908
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1908
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the averages for the ten years 1891-1900 it will be found that
these are considerably higher than the figures for 1908.
In the County of London the death-rate per 1,000 of the
population was .15.
The distribution of the disease in the three registration sub-districts of the Borough, together with the number of deaths among both hospital and home-treated patients during 1908, is shown in the following table:—
| Registration Sub-Districts. | No. of cases notified. | Cases treated at home. | Cases removed to hospital. | No. of Deaths. | Case-mortality per cent. | Case-rate per 1,000 population. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At home. | At hospital. | Total. | ||||||
| East Battersea | 162 | 3 | 159 | l | 6 | 7 | 4.3 | 2.12 |
| North-West Battersea | 79 | 4 | 75 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 12.6 | 1.59 |
| South-West Battersea | 99 | 38 | 61 | l | 4 | 5 | 5.0 | 1.70 |
It will be noted that the disease has been fairly uniformly
distributed over the Borough, though on the whole East Battersea
has suffered more than the other two registration districts
of the Borough. This is in accordance with the rule that generally
speaking the incidence of the disease is heavier in the poorer and
more congested parts of the district.
Two hundred and ninety-five of the cases notified were removed
to hospital, or 86.7 per cent, of the total. In 1907 the
percentage of cases removed to hospital was 94.6, and in 1906
89.6 In the sub-districts the percentages of cases removed to
hospital were as follows:—East Battersea 98.1, North-West
Battersea 94.6, South-West Battersea 61.6.
Nineteen deaths occurred in hospital and 3 at home. The
case mortality amongst the patients treated in hospital and at
home being 6.4 and 6.6 per cent, respectively.