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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 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Table Showing Comparison of Prevalence of Sickness and Death from Infectious Diseases (Rates calculated per 1,000 persons on the population estimated to the middle of each year).
| Years. | Small-pox. | Erysipelas. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric and Continued Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Cerebro-spinal Fever. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case-rate. | Death-rate. | Case-rate. | Death-rate. | Case-rate. | Death-rate. | Case-rate. | Death-rate. | Case-rate. | Death-rate. | Case-rate. | Death-rate. | Case-rate. | Death- rate | |
| 1910 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·90 | 0·04 | 1·10 | 0·06 | 2·33 | 0·03 | 1·21 | 0·03 | 0·08 | 0·03 | 0·02 | 0·02 |
| 1911 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·96 | 0·02 | 1·23 | 0·12 | 1·93 | 0·02 | 0·12 | 0·02 | 0·05 | 0·01 | 0·04 | 0·04 |
| 1912 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·79 | 0·02 | 1·25 | 0·10 | 2·54 | 0·03 | 0·12 | 0·01 | 0·03 | 0·005 | 0·00 | 0·00 |
| 1913 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·73 | 0·02 | 1·49 | 0·11 | 5·35 | 0·05 | 0·08 | 0·03 | 0·05 | 0·03 | 0·01 | 0·01 |
| 1914 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·93 | 0·03 | 1·46 | 0·10 | 5·55 | 0·06 | 0·10 | 0·01 | 0·07 | 0·02 | 0·005 | 0·005 |
| 1915 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·85 | 0·03 | 2·24 | 0·18 | 3·82 | 0·05 | 0·12 | 0·03 | 0·02 | 0·01 | 0·12 | 0·04 |
| 1916 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 1·20 | 0·01 | 2·01 | 0·17 | 2·01 | 0·04 | 0·14 | 0·01 | 0·3 | 0·04 | 0·14 | 0·03 |
| 1917 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·47 | 0·01 | 1·18 | 0·09 | 1·53 | 0·03 | 0·09 | 0·05 | 0·03 | 0·03 | 0·08 | 0·07 |
| 1918 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·50 | 0·01 | 1· 43 | 0·.15 | 1·64 | 0·03 | 0·04 | 0·00 | 0·01 | 0·01 | 0·06 | 0·05 |
| 1919 | 0·02 | 0·00 | 0·58 | 0·02 | 1·44 | 0·13 | 3·04 | 0·02 | 0·07 | 0·02 | 0·07 | 0·03 | 0·06 | 0·04 |
| Average 1910-1919 | 0·002 | 0·00 | 0·79 | 0·02 | 1·48 | 0·12 | 2·97 | 0·036 | 0·21 | 0·02 | 0·05 | 0·02 | 0·05 | 0·03 |
| 1920 | 0·00 | 0·00 | 0·54 | 0·012 | 3·20 | 0·223 | 4·03 | 0·042 | 0·06 | 0·012 | 0·19 | 0·042 | 0·042 | 0·036 |
This table is recommended for use by the Society of Medical Officers of Health, as a record of "the frequency and mortality of
infectious diseases in the whole district for a series of years."