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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1905
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905
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The cost of the notification of infectious disease in Battersea in each year since 1891 is given below:—
| Year. | Amount paid to Medical Practitioners. | Cost per 1,000 Population. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | S. | d. | £ | S. | d. | ||
| 1891 | 150 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 10 | ||
| 1892 | 224 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 3 | |
| 1893 | 321 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 | |
| 1894 | 208 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
| 1895 | 197 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |
| 1896 | 229 | l6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 9 | |
| 1897 | 310 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | |
| 1898 | 229 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 5 | |
| 1899 | 203 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| 1900 | 146 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 5 | |
| 1901 | 136 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | |
| 1902 (including Chicken-pox) | 343 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1903 do. | 137 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 | |
| 1904 do. | 171 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5 | |
| 1905 | 146 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 5 | |
The amounts paid to medical practitioners for notification certificates of cases of chicken-pox in the years 1902, 1903, 1904, when chicken-pox was a notifiable disease, were as follows:—
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 148 | 17 | 0 |
| 1903 | 5 | 12 | 0 |
| 1904 | 67 | 0 |
The notification fees are repaid to the Sanitary Authorities
by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
The table on pages 40-41 gives the number of cases of
each of the notifiable diseases in each week of the year, and the
same information is recorded in a graphic form on the chart.