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Consumption within the Borough be instituted and continued for a
period of 3 years from the 1st October.
The Kingston Board of Guardians stated that they would be
pleased to assist the Council, and had instructed their Medical and
other officers in Wimbledon to co-operate with the officers of the
Sanitary Authority in dealing with consumptive cases.
Ten notifications were received from the 1st October to the end
of the year, and at 21 houses disinfection of rooms, bedding, &c., was
carried out, an increase of ten houses over last year and 12 the
previous year.
Diarrhoea and Epidemic Enteritis were the assigned
cause of 90 deaths—63 being of children under 1 year of age, 26
between 1 and 5 years, and 1 between 1 and 15 years.
The first two deaths took place in the third weeks in January and
June. Seventy-nine deaths occurred in the third or summer quarter,
and were the subject of the undermentioned report made by me to
and at the request of the Local Government Board, the death-rate
for this quarter for the whole of Wimbledon being 63. Of the
remaining 9 deaths three were in the first week and two in each of the
second, third, and fourth weeks of October.
The annual death-rate per thousand living is 1.8 as against '31
last year, .9 the previous year and an average of the past ten years
of .58.
This excessive mortality was accounted for by an epidemic commencing
in June, continuing through the summer months and
terminating at the end of October. Although to an extent all parts
of the town and persons of all ages were affected, yet it is most significant
that the mortality was, with few exceptions, confined to one
part of the district—a part which has suffered in a large measure in
previous summers and specifically mentioned in my report for tbe
year 1904.
In the table is set out the streets principally affected, with details
as to population, birth and death-rates.
In only three of the largest towns mentioned in the weekly and
other returns of the Registrar General was the death-rate in the summer
quarter equal or greater to that of Wimbledon, viz:- Grimsby,
6.4; Hanley, 6.5; Coventry, 6.5.
In no Metropolitan Borough was the rate so high, the highest
being Poplar, 543, and the rate for the whole of London, 2.6.