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40 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Erysipelas, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea and other infective diseases,
and a decrease in the number of deaths from Puerperal Fever,
Measles, and Influenza, while the number of deaths from Enteric
Fever is the same.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has been
an increase in the number of deaths from Diphtheria, Puerperal
Fever, Erysipelas, and other infective diseases, but a decrease in
all the others.
From all infective diseases the death-rate was 2.21 per 1,000,
(2.32 in Clapham, 1.85 in Putney, 2.20 in Streatham, 3.35 in Tooting,
and 2.85 in Wandsworth), compared with 2.43 in 1913, and 3.44
the decennial average.
The rate from the principal infective diseases, viz.:—Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever, and Diarrhoea, was 99 per 1,000 (.79 in Clapham, 72 in
Putney, 75 in Streatham, 1.70 in Tooting, and 1.17 in Wandsworth),
compared with 1.04 in 1913, 1.73 in 1912, and 2.26 in 1911.
The rate from these diseases was lower than in 1913 owing
to the decrease in the number of deaths from Measles, Whooping
Cough and Diarrhoea.
In out-lying Institutions 310 deaths occurred from infective
diseases (50 belonging to Clapham, 15 to Putney, 83 to Streatham,
54 to Tooting, and 108 to Wandsworth), compared with 281 in 1913.
Of these deaths 178 occurred in Workhouse Infirmaries, 101 in
General and Special Hospitals, 18 in Public Lunatic Asylums, and
13 in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
The causes of death in these Institutions is shown in Table X.
In Institutions in the Borough 167 deaths from infective
diseases occurred of persons not belonging thereto, compared with
183 in 1913.