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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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District,
1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clapham | 2.2 | 2.99 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 2.83 | 3.14 | 2.36 | 3.03 | 3.32 | 1.77 |
Putney | 1.4 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 1.65 | .6 |
Streatham | 2.2 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.29 | 1.7 |
Tooting | 2.0 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 5.9 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 0.26 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.7 |
Wandsworth | 2.3 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 2.64 | 2.03 | 3.96 | 2.8 | 3.59 | 2.73 | |
Whole District | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.05 | 2.28 | 2.1 | 2.94 | 2.6 | 2.12 |
The number of notifications of infectious disease
received during the year is shown on Table III. of the
Local Government Board Tables.
The number received in the whole district since the
passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act
was as under:—
1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1891 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 4 | 29 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 4 | ||
Scarlatina | 453 | 887 | 1256 | 673 | 659 | 983 | 1014 | 703 | 894 | 672 | |
Diphtheria | 164 | 242 | 398 | 321 | 266 | 286 | 569 | 581 | 615 | 454 | |
Membranous Oroup | 8 | 17 | 33 | 22 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | |
Typhus | Fevers. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric | 64 | 86 | 108 | 128 | 138 | 98 | 100 | 125 | 124 | 153 | |
2 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | .. | 1 | ||
Relapsing | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Puerperal | 10 | 13 | 21 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 20 | 13 | 15 | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Erysipelas | 177 | 274 | 373 | 243 | 221 | 262 | 238 | 230 | 234 | 205 |
The Chart shows the number of cases of Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria and Enteric Fever notified in each
month of the year.
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