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Wandsworth 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
| School. | Diseases. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measles. | Chicken-Pox. | Whooping Cough. | Mumps. | Ringworm | Total. | |
| Tooting— | ||||||
| Ensham Street | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
| Tooting Graveney | 55 | 4 | 30 | 4 | 8 | 101 |
| Total | 55 | 5 | 30 | 4 | 8 | 102 |
| Wandsworth— | ||||||
| Brandlehow Road | 140 | 23 | 21 | 22 | 34 | 240 |
| Earlsfield | 120 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 138 |
| Eltringham Street | 70 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 105 |
| Frogmore | 47 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 92 |
| Garratt Lane | 103 | 22 | 4 | 79 | 11 | 219 |
| Merton Road | 70 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 96 |
| St. Ann's | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 |
| St. Michael's | 39 | 5 | 1 | .. | 3 | 48 |
| Swaffield Road | 132 | 13 | 1 | .. | .. | 146 |
| Waldron Road | 99 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 127 |
| Warple Way | 157 | 18 | 4 | .. | 5 | 184 |
| West Hill | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
| Total | 986 | 136 | 83 | 129 | 70 | 1,404 |
| Grand Total | 2260 | 259 | 288 | 216 | 135 | 3,158 |
On account of an outbreak of Measles the school in Roehampton
was closed from the 8th to the 26th May, and the
school was disinfected.
As far as could be ascertained this had the effect of checking
the spread of the disease.
Whooping Cough.
64 deaths occurred from Whooping Cough, compared with 60
in 1901, and 86 3 the corrected decennial average.
21 of the deaths occurred in Clapham, five in Putney, 18 in
Streatham, five in Tooting, and 15 in Wandsworth.
32 of the deaths were of infants under one year, 29 from one
to five years, and three over five years.
The death-rate was .26 per 1,000, compared with .25 in 1901,
and with .41 for the whole of London.