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Wandsworth 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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49
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES
The next Table shows the number of deaths from these
diseases during the year and for the 10 previous years. This
Table is corrected for Institutions, as a large number of deaths
registered in the Borough occurred in the Fountain and Grove
Fever Hospitals, and belong to other Metropolitan Boroughs.
The number above or below the corrected decennial average is
also shown.

Table: TABLE XXXII.

TABLE XXXII.

19001901I9021903190419051906190719081909I9101910
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average,
Small-pox ......326............................35
Scarlet Fever1615241813281922211412...9.1
Diphtheria Membranous Croup4142704541315041372916...36.0
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever2615301911111510768...8.9
Cont'd Fever......2......1112132.1...
Puerpl. Fever47865811106105...4.1
Cholera.......................................
Erysipelas9318513141010684...7.7
Measles8268941091048965684510844...57.5
Whooping C.45606487487555105596768...13.0
Influenza8741933957417088828955...28.8
Diarrhœa1561649396208137218651015235...115.0
Other Septic Diseases58131011161610111413...9
Totals471426535434511451530430377398263...325.0

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The total number of deaths from these diseases was 263, 48
in Clapham, 26 in Putney, 68 in Streatham, 31 in Tooting, and 90
in Wandsworth, a decrease of 135 compared with 1909, and of
325 compared with the corrected decennial average.
Compared with 1909 there has been an increase in the number
of deaths from Enteric Fever, Continued Fever and Whooping
Cough, and a decrease in the number of deaths from Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, Puerperal Fever, Erysipelas, Measles,
Influenza, Diarrhœa, and other Septic diseases.
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