Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Battersea. at Ages (Years). | Admitted to Hospital from each Sub-District. | Deaths. | |||||||||||||
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0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 35- | 45- | 65 & over | Total | N. | S. | ||
Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | 2 | 9 | 22 | 26 | 36 | 165 | 51 | 27 | 34 | 7 | 4 | - | 383 | 205 | 177 | 9 |
Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 26 | 11 | 62 | 13 | 17 | 1 |
Scarlet fever | 2 | 15 | 32 | 33 | 54 | 172 | 62 | 13 | 24 | 9 | 1 | - | 417 | 237 | 172 | - |
Enteric fever | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | 2 | - | 15 | 7 | 8 | - |
Continued fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | - |
Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 9 | - | - | 11 | 3 | 5 | - |
Meningococcal meningitis | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | - | 3 | - | |
Polio-myelitis, &c. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - |
Polio-encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Encephalitis lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | |
Dysentry | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 4 | - | 3 |
Acute primary pneumonia | 22 | 16 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 28 | 5 | 9 | 33 | 17 | 37 | 25 | 233 | 72 | 53 | 85 |
Acute influenzal pneumonia | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 47 | 13 | 5 | 10 |
Whooping-cough | 81 | 83 | 85 | 106 | 103 | 232 | 5 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 699 | 36 | 26 | 9 |
Measles | 20 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 79 | 13 | 6 | - |
Totals | 151 | 140 | 171 | 184 | 216 | 610 | 134 | 69 | 118 | 63 | 83 | 43 | 1982 | 609 | 479 | 118 |