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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

Wandsworth 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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14
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

Table: Number of Notifications received each year since the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act:—

Number of Notifications received each year since the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act:—

18901891189218931891189518961897
Small Pox. .4. .2911513
Scarlatina30945388712566736599831014
Diphtheria112164242398321266286569
Membranous Group481733222137
Typhus. .1. .. .. .. .. .. .
EntericFevers,77648610812813898100
Continued5211613285
Relapsing. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Puerperal9101321196109
Cholera. .. .. .. .121. .
Erysipelas147177274373243221262238

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The above two tables give the number of notifications
received in the year, distributed in the sub-districts,
and the number in each year since the notification Act
was passed. The chart on the next page shows the
number of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Enteric Fever
cases notified in each month of the year.
small-pox. There were two cases reported during the
year, one of which was contracted outside
the District. There was no death. There has been no
serious recrudescence of the disease since the epidemic of
1895, but the comparative neglect of vaccination, to
which reference will be made later, renders the danger of
it greater year by year.
There were 26 deaths in the year, or one less
scarlet Fever. than in 1896 The notifications were 1,014,
a larger number than in any of the last four years, and
exceeded only in 1893 of all the years since notification
was compulsory. The mild nature of the fever is shown