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Battersea 1900

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

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Erysipelas.
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Table: TABLE XXVII.Deaths from all causes in the Year 1901.(Exclusive of the deaths of Non-Residents in Public Institutions within the Borough, but inclusive of the deaths of Residents in Public Institutions without the Borough.

TABLE XXVII.

Deaths from all causes in the Year 1901.

(Exclusive of the deaths of Non-Residents in Public Institutions within the Borough, but inclusive of the deaths of Residents in Public Institutions without the Borough.

DiseasesAGES.All Ages.Sub-Districts.
Under 1 year1 to 5 years.5 to 10 years.10 to x5 years.15 to 20 years.20 to 25 years.25 to 35 years.35 to 45 years.45 to 55 years.55 to 65 years.65 to 75 years.75 to 85 years.85 years and upwards.Males.Females.TotalEast Battersea.North-West Battersea.South-West Battersea.
Small-pox1..................3...............314211
Measles28953..............................675912674457
Scarlet Fever...431...1.....................3697...2
Epidemic Influenza1...11......4...3614...1110215511
Whooping Cough38382......1.....................38417948247
Diphtheria11171...........................911201046
Enteric Fever1......1125341.........711181071
Diarrhoea. Dysentery13121.............221323...9570165658119
Epidemic Enteritis466.........•••.....................2923524084
Tetanus.......................................1...1...1...
Syphilis10....................................731046...

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Hospital Treatment. —Forty-one cases were removed to
hospitals, namely, the Union Infirmary or general hospitals, but
principally the former. Those cases thus removed represented
25.2 per cent, of the cases notified.
Mortality.—The deaths recorded during the year numbered
seventeen; of these six occurred in hospital and eleven at
home, representing 14.6 and 8.8 per cent, respectively, or
together 10.3 per cent, of the cases notified.
The Erysipelas mortality rate was equal to 0.09 per 1,000
of the population.