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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 1909
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1909
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A decrease has also to be recorded in the number of notifications
of diphtheria received during 1909 as compared with 1908.
The notifications were 46 per cent. below the average for the ten
years 1891-1900. The 265 diphtheria cases occurred in 235
houses, and in only 17 of these were the drains on testing found
defective.
The enteric fever or typhoid notifications received were 62 per
cent. below the average for the decennium 1891-1900. The 48
enteric fever cases occurred in 34 houses, in eight of which the
drains, on testing, were found to be defective.
On the 23rd March, 1909, an Order was made making
Glanders, Anthrax and Hydrophobia notifiable diseases in the
County of London.
| Ward. | Estimated Population. | Diphtheria & Membranous Croup. | Erysipelas. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric & Continued Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Cerebrospinal fever. | All Notifiable Infecti's diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No 1 (Nine Elms) | 31,882 | 2.00 | 0.90 | 3.63 | 0.46 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 7.08 |
| „ 2 (Park) | 20,069 | 2.04 | 4.48 | 0.49 | 0.09 | 8.37 | ||
| „ 3 (Latchmere) | 22,704 | 1.23 | 4.58 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 7.22 | |
| 17,703 | 1.29 | 0.90 | 5.08 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.45 | |
| „ 5 (Church) | 21,579 | 1.15 | 1.11 | 2.13 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 5.09 |
| 22,709 | 1.18 | 0.96 | 3.96 | 0.26 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 6.60 | |
| „ 7 (St. John) | 9,131 | 0.54 | 0.54 | 1.97 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.06 |
| 20,651 | 1.15 | 0.53 | 3.68 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 5.47 | |
| „ 9 (Broomwood) | 19,608 | 1.42 | 0.15 | 316 | 0.20 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 4.99 |
Small-pox.
Again it is satisfactory to record that no case of small-pox
was notified in Battersea in 1909. One suspected case was referred
to me by a medical practitioner, which, on investigation,
proved not to be small-pox.
In the County of London, twenty-one cases occurred during
the year.
Contacts were watched on arrival within the Borough during
1909 in connection with small-pox cases that had occurred on