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Wandsworth 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Notification of Infectious Diseases.
The total number of cases of infectious diseases notified
during the year is shown on Table III. of the Local Government
Board's Tables.
The number of notifications of cases received in this Borough
for the year and for the previous 10 years is shown in the following
Table, as also the number above or below the corrected
decennial average.
| 1898 | 1899 | I900 | I90I | I902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1908 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above decennial average. | No. below decennial average. | |||||||||||||
| 127 | 8 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 894 | 672 | 684 | 1063 | 835 | 791 | 1507 | 1079 | 1251 | 6.8 | |||||
| 466 | 533 | 568 | 638 | 598 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 125 | 124 | 96 | 72 | 79.6 | ||||||||||
| 20 | 21 | 16 | 22 | |||||||||||
| 230 | 205 | 219 | 249 | 308 | 225 | 108.9 | ||||||||
| 1669 | 1886 | 1510 | 1784 | 1602 | 2154 | |||||||||
The following Table shows the total number of cases of
infectious diseases notified during the year, the number removed
to hospital, the number that died in hospital and at home, as
well as the total number of deaths:—
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