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Wandsworth 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1931.
TABLE XI.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total CASES of Infectious Diseases occurring in each Locality. | Total Cases occurring. | Number admitted into Hospital. | Total Deaths. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||||
| Small-pox | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | - |
| Diphtheria | 1 < | 17 | 43 | 77 | 63 | 116 | 393 | 385 | 17 |
| Scarlet Fever | 141 | 60 | 96 | 91 | 101 | 189 | 678 | 614 | 4 |
| Enteric and Para-tvphoid Fevers | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 7 | 5 | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 18 | 11 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 22 | 3 |
| Erysipelas | 24 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 49 | 133 | 50 | 9 |
| Whooping Cough | 293 | 100 | 232 | 232 | 413 | 666 | 1936 | 124 | 18 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal | 20 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 92 | - | 10 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Primary | 69 | 39 | 58 | 52 | 59 | 186 | 463 | - | 69 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Polio-myelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 5 | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Total | 637 | 242 | 473 | 490 | 672 | 1253 | 3767 | 1232 | 144 |
| Tuberculosis—all forms | 114 | 66 | 119 | 78 | 90 | 146 | 613 | 475 | 306 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 18 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 41 | 21 | 1 |
| Total | 132 | 68 | 127 | 85 | 91 | 151 | 654 | 496 | 307 |
| Grand Total | 769 | 310 | 600 | 575 | 763 | 1404 | 4421 | 1728 | 451 |