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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wimbledon 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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The average attack and death-rates for the last six quin-queunial periods were as follows:—
| Attack Rate. | Death Rate. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1891-1895 | 4. 8 | .02 | per thousand of the population. |
| 1896-1900 | 3.3 | .04 | |
| 1901-1905 | 2.3 | .02 | |
| 1906-1910 | 4. 07 | .05 | |
| 1911-1915 | 3. 03 | .01 | |
| 1916-1920 | 1.8 | .01 |
Two hundred and one, or 87.3 per cent, of the patients
were treated at the Isolation Hospital.
Sixty-four per cent, of the cases notified were children
of school age, five to fifteen years, and of these 142 attended
the following schools:—
Cottenham Park School 1
Effra Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 12
Durnsford Road Mixed and Infants' Schools 2
Queen's Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 15
Queen's Road Boys' School 8
Pel ham Road Boys' School 4
Pelham Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 13
Haydon's Road Girls' and Infants' Schools 27
Haydon's Road Boys' School 17
Central Mixed School 1
Central Infants' School 1
Dundonald Road Boys' School 1
Dundonald Road Girls' and Infants Schools 6
Russell Road Mixed School 6
Russell Road Infants' School 4
Private Schools 18
Schools outside the district 6
142
Diphtheria.—The total number of cases notified during
the year was 123 from 97 houses, as against 86 and 111 for
1919 and 1918 respectively. The attack-rate was 1.9 per
thousand of the population.
There were twelve deaths, corresponding to a death-rate
of .19 per thousand of the population.
In two houses there were 4 cases, in three houses 3, in
fourteen houses 2, and in the remainder 1 each.
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