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Battersea 1927
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1927
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Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
The principal zymotic diseases are small-pox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup), whooping-cough,
enteric fever and diarrhœa.
The deaths from these causes in 1927 numbered 57, as compared
with 119 in 1926, a decrease of 52.1 percent. There was
a corresponding decrease in the zymotic death-rate from 0.692 in
1926 to 0.338 in 1927. The number of deaths from these diseases
is lower than in any year since 1857.
The mean death-rate from each of the principal zymotic diseases for the ten years 1907-1916, and for the ten years 1917-1926, are compared with the corresponding rates for 1926 and 1927 in the following table:—
| Zymotic Diseases. | Number of Deaths from each of the principal Zymotic Diseases in 1926 and 1927, with corresponding Death Rates for those years and for the 10 years 1907-16 and 1917-1926. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | No. of Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Mean Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Increase (+) or Decrease (—), 1927 over | ||||
| 1927. | 1926. | 1927. | 1926. | 1907-1916. | 1917-1926. | Previous year. | 1917-1926. | |
| — | — | — | — | — | .001 | — | -.001 | |
| Measles | 1 | 43 | .006 | .250 | .462 | .237 | -.244 | -.231 |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 2 | .018 | .012 | .062 | .034 | +.006 | -.016 |
| Diphtheria | 25 | 20 | .148 | .116 | .135 | .182 | +.032 | -.034 |
| Whooping-cough | 15 | 13 | .089 | .076 | .263 | .154 | +.013 | -.065 |
| Enteric fever | — | 1 | — | .006 | .028 | .011 | -.006 | -.011 |
| Diarrhoea and enteritis | 13 | 40 | .077 | .232 | .692 | .273 | -.155 | -.196 |
| Total | 57 | 119 | .338 | .692 | 1.642 | .892 | -.354 | -.554 |
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Chicken-Pox.
During 1927 there were 671 cases of chicken-pox reported, as
compared with 375 in 1926, 853 in 1925, 541 in 1924, 617 in 1923,
259 in 1922, and 400 in 1921.