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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Enteric Fever shows a decided decrease, and Puerperal Fever
a small decrease, while there is a slight increase in the case of
the other diseases.
The total number of cases notified per 1,000 persons living
was 6.4, compared with 6.7 in 1900. This rate was as follows
in the separate sub-districts:—Clapham, 7.1 ; Putney, 3.2;
Streatham, 5.3; Tooting, 8.6; and Wandsworth, 7.6 In the
County of London the rate was 8.8, compared with 7.7 in 1900.
The death-rate from the notifiable diseases was: in the
Borough .36 per 1,000, Clapham .36, Putney .32, Streatham, .18,
Tooting .69, and Wandsworth .47. In the County of London this
rate was .70 per 1,000, or nearly double the rate in this Borough.
The Chart shows the number of cases of Small Pox, Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, and Enteric Fever notified in each month of
the year.
One case of Scarlet Fever and seven cases of Erysipelas were
notified from the Workhouse, one of Erysipelas from the
Middlesex County Asylum, one of Erysipelas from the Royal
Hospital for Incurables, one of Typhoid from the Prison, one
of Scarlet Fever and one of Diphtheria from St. Anne's Home,
Streatham, two of Erysipelas from the Tooting Home, eight of
Scarlet Fever, two of Diphtheria and one of Enteric Fever from
the Fountain Fever Hospital, and 13 of Scarlet Fever, 12 of
Diphtheria, and three of Enteric Fever from the Grove Fever
Hospital; a total of 54.
Small Pox.
During this year the Sanitary Department have had to deal
with an outbreak of Small Pox, but as the outbreak in its more
intense form only commenced in the last two months of the year
the complete report is necessarily postponed till next year.
Particulars of the cases which were notified in 1901 are here
given, and in the case of the outbreak in Streatham, a more
complete report is given, as the circumstances were in many
respects extremely interesting, and the experience gained very
valuable.