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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Whooping Cough.
66 deaths were registered during the year, 33 of males and
33 of females, a decrease of two compared with 1910, and of 12
compared with the decenrial average. 11 of the deaths occurred
in Clapham, six in Putney, 10 in Streatham, five in Tooting, and
34 in Wandsworth.
29 of the deaths were of infants under one year, 26 of children
from one to two years, nine from two to five years, and two from
five to fifteen years.
The death-rate was .21 per 1,000, compared with .22 in 1910,
.23 in 1909, and .23 for the whole of London in 1911.
This disease was slightly less fatal in London and in this
Borough in the year 1911 than in the two previous years. In the
sub-district of Wandsworth it was more prevalent than in the other
sub-districts
The number of cases notified from schools was 565, compared
with 919 in 1910, 538 in 1909, and 612 in 1908, 232 of these
being from schools in the sub-district of Wandsworth, the schools
chiefly affected in that sub-district being The Wandle and Earlsfield,
and Streatham, where the schools chiefly affected were
Mitcham Lane and Hitherfield Road.