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Wandsworth 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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30 Report of the Medical Officcr of Health for 1980.
TABLE XVIII.—
| School. | Diseases. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Measles. | German Measles. | Chicken-pox. | Whooping Cough. | Mumps. | Ringworm. | Other Diseases. | Totals. | |
| Brought forward | 384 | 335 | 1773 | 16 | 598 | 176 | 950 | 15 | 189 | 4,436 |
| Wandsworth. | ||||||||||
| Allfarthing Lane | 8 | 7 | 63 | 59 | 17 | 2 | - | 16 | 172 | |
| All Saints' | 1 | 2 | 31 | - | 22 | 1 | — | - | 3 | 60 |
| Brandlehow Road | 8 | 3 | 57 | - | 16 | — | 6 | - | — | 90 |
| County | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Earlsfield | 5 | 3 | 68 | - | 8 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 90 |
| Elliott Central | 2 | 1 | 9 | - | 1 | — | — | - | 3 | 9 |
| Eltringham Street | 7 | 7 | 54 | - | 2 | 10 | 3 | - | 3 | 86 |
| Frogmore Special | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | 7 |
| Garratt Lane | 3 | 10 | 17 | - | 9 | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | 47 |
| Magdalen Road | 5 | 1 | 29 | - | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 43 |
| Merton Road | 1 | 7 | 70 | - | 23 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 120 |
| Riversdale | 10 | 5 | 88 | - | 21 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | 130 |
| St. Ann's | — | 1 | 14 | - | 8 | 6 | 1 | — | 3 | 33 |
| St. Faith's | 1 | 2 | 35 | - | 21 | 3 | 34 | — | 3 | 99 |
| St. Joseph's | — | — | 8 | - | — | — | — | — | 2 | 10 |
| St. Michael's | 2 | 4 | 61 | - | 2 | — | 7 | — | — | 76 |
| Swaffield Road | 6 | 13 | 44 | - | 2 | 10 | 4 | — | 1 | 80 |
| Technical Institute | 3 | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | 3 |
| Waldron Road | 11 | 7 | 45 | - | 5 | 2 | - | — | 1 | 71 |
| Wandle | 3 | 5 | 20 | - | 11 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 73 |
| Warple Way | 4 | 3 | 28 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | 41 |
| West Hill | 19 | 17 | 83 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 158 |
| Grand Total | 484 | 433 | 2593 | 18 | 820 | 275 | 1039 | 24 | 249 | 5,935 |
Diarrhoea.
The number of deaths from Diarrhoea was 33 compared
with 35 in 1929, 40 in 1928, 27 in 1927, and 80 in 1926, and of
these 30, or 90 per cent., were under the age of one year, compared
with 25 in 1929. The number of deaths from Diarrhoea,
Zymotic Enteritis and Enteritis under one year represents 11.5
per cent, of the total mortality at that age.