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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
cent., were treated at home, with two deaths. The case mortality
in hospital was 2.19 per cent., and at home .99 per cent. The
total number of deaths, 15, is one under last year, and 11.4 under
the corrected decennial average.
This disease was at its minimum, viz., 25, in March, rising
to 74 in May, falling again to 42 in August, and reaching its
maximum in November. The disease still continued to be of a
very mild type, the death-rate being in 1901 .06, and in the
County of London .12 per per 1,000.
The proportion of notified cases per 1,000 of population was
in this Borough 2.91, compared with 3.09 last year, and in the
County of London 4.04. The total number of cases notified at
all ages and at certain ages, and the total removed to hospital
in the Borough, as well as in the separate sub-districts, is given
in Table III. of the Local Government Board's Tables.
In the several sub-districts the proportion of cases notified
per 1,000 of population was as follows:—Clapham 3.6, Putney
1.6, Streatham 2.5, Tooting 3.7, and Wandsworth 3.07.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.
469 notifications were received during the year, compared
with 460 in 1900, 621 in 1899, and 589 in 1898.
The largest number of notifications was received from the
Parish of Wandsworth, and the smallest from Putney.
367, or 78.2 per cent., of the cases were removed to hospital
with 34 deaths, while 102, or 21.8 per cent., were treated at home
with eight deaths.
The case mortality in hospital was 9.2, and at home 7.8 ; the
total case mortality being 8.9 per cent., the lowest mortality yet
recorded. The case mortality for the County of London was
11.11, compared with 12.83 Per cent. last year.
The maximum number of notifications was received in
October, and the minimum in May. The maximum in October