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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
1,257, or 84.1 per cent. of the cases were removed to hospital
where 27 died, and 237, or 15.9 per cent. were treated at home, with
one death.
The total number of deaths was 28, of which seven belonged to
Clapham, none to Putney, seven to Streatham, four to Tooting, and 10
to Wandsworth.
There was still a perceptible increase in the percentage of cases
removed to hospital compared with former years, the percentage in
1904 being 81.6; in 1903, 78.1; in 1902, 75; and in 1901, 70.6.
The case mortality during the year was 1.87 per cent. compared
with 1.74 in 1904, and 2.19 in 1903.
The mortality among the cases treated at home was .42 per cent.
and among those treated in the Fever Hospitals 2.14 per cent.
The mortality among hospital-treated patients was thus five times
greater than among those treated at home.
The proportion of cases notified per 1,000 of population was 5.1,
compared with 2.80 in 1904, 3.2 in 1903, and 4.4 in 1902, and in the
County of London 4.1 compared with 2.89, 2.7 and 3.8.
The proportion of cases notified per 1,000 of population was thus
one per 1,000 above that for the whole of London.
In the separate sub-districts the annual rate of notified cases per
1,000 persons living was as follows for the year and for the three
previous years :—