Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921
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The case-rate per 1,000 of the population was 8ยท12, and 6 deaths were registered from the disease, giving a death-rate
Notifiable Disease. | Wards. | Districts. | Totals | ||||||||||
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2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | E | N | S | 1 | ||
Small-pox | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 58 | 72 | 89 | 50 | 182 | 138 | 25 | 77 | 77 | 201 | 328 | 184 | 713 |
Erysipelas | 11 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 27 | 34 | 14 | 75 |
Scarlet Fever | 116 | 127 | 164 | 87 | 191 | 353 | 87 | 111 | 138 | 407 | 625 | 342 | 1374 |
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever | 2 | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 18 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 29 | 6 | 61 |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | 5 | ... | 4 | . . . | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
Polio-myelitis | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | . . . | 1 | 2 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... | 3 | ... | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | , . . | 3 |
Malaria | 1 | 1 | 2 | ... | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ... | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
Dysentery | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Polio-encephalitis | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | . . . | ... | ... | ... |
Trench Fever | ... | ... | ... | ... | . . . | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Acute Primary Pneumonia | 59 | 39 | 27 | 20 | 34 | 39 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 132 | 85 | 32 | 249 |
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 20 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 40 | 36 | 10 | 86 |
Totals | 285 | 272 | 308 | 170 | 405 | 581 | 127 | 223 | 240 | 850 | 1156 | 605 | 2611 |