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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Chicken-pox ceased to be a notifiable disease on the 7th
January, but up to that date 60 cases had been notified.
During the whole time the notification of this disease was in
force, from the 7th February, 1902, 1,468 cases were notified.
Excluding Chicken-pox, the total number of cases notified
per 1,000 persons living was 67, compared with 9.5 in 1902, and
6.4 in 1901.
In the several sub-districts the rates were as follows:—
Clapham 6.2, compared with 9.5; Putney 6.3, compared with
5.6; Streatham 6.3, compared with 7.9; Tooting 6.3 compared
with 13.9; Wandsworth 8.6, compared with 11.1.
In the County of London this rate was 6.0, compared with
9.9 in 1902, and 8.8 in 1901.
19 cases of Scarlet Fever and 21 of Erysipelas were notified
from the Workhouse; three cases of Scarlet Fever, two of Typhoid
Fever, and two of Erysipelas from the Middlesex County Lunatic
Asylum; one of Small-pox and one of Erysipelas from the
Prison; seven of Erysipelas from the Tooting Home; one of
Scarlet Fever from the Fountain Fever Hospital; and six of
Scarlet Fever, six of Diphtheria, and one of Erysipelas from the
Grove Fever Hospital; a total of 70, compared with 83 in 1902.
SMALL-POX.
In 1902 the last case of Small-pox was notified on the 31st
July, and during the rest of the year the Borough was quite free
from the disease. In 1903 the first two cases notified, one on the
27th January and the other on the 28th April, were found on
examination at the South Wharf not to be suffering from Smallpox,
and were returned home.
The first actual case of Small-pox was notified on the 28th
April, followed by four cases in May, four in June (one of which was
not Small-pox), six in July (one of which was not Small-pox), two
in October, seven in November, and two in December.
Out of the 24 actual cases of Small-pox notified, seven
occurred in Clapham, five in Streatham, six in Tooting, and six in
Wandsworth.