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Battersea 1900

Report upon the public health & sanitary condition of Battersea during the year1900

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Non-Notifiable Infectious Sickness and Mortality (contd.)
35
as forty deaths actually occurred amongst children in Battersea
during that period from Measles and Whooping Cough, the
mortality from these two diseases together, considerably
exceeding the number of notices received from the schools.
For what such statistics are therefore worth, they are given
here showing the number of cases of each class of sickness
brought to notice during the four quarters of the year :—

Table: TABLE XVI.— continued.

TABLE XVI.— continued.

Month.Week of Year.Cases of Infectious Disease Notified.
Small-Pox.Cholera.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Erysipelas.Scarlet Fever.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Continued and Relapsing.Puerperal Fever.Totals.
1901.1900.1899.
July27......4......8............121833
28......2...716...i......261739
29......3...47...5......192134
30......3...56...1...I161426
August31......4...46............142136
32......4...313...3......231521
33......2...310...2......171626
34......2...113............162322
35......3...16...3......131214
September36......5...114...3......241720
37......4...114...3......223426
38......8...221...2......333229
39......5...318...3...I303331
October40......9...117...3......302946
411...5...531...4......463746
42......11...336...2......523746
433...8...222...3......382642
November441...12...421...4......422248
45......5...424...3...1373348
46......7...415...2......282445
474...11...411...4......342147
482...6...32...2......153138
December4910...6......14...i......311924
5°9...4...I15...5......342937
516...4...412...1......271526
5215...7...524...4......552721
Whole Year51...2622126609...90...8114812311702

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Measles.
During the year 1900, Measles again showed a reduced
mortality compared with the two preceding years, the deaths
registered in the district for the last three years being as
follows:—
1898 119
1899 103
1900 81
The annual average for the last preceding ten years being 110.
This reduction in the mortality is satisfactory in a measure,
but, nevertheless, it cannot be regarded as other than a very