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Battersea 1907
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907
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The following table gives the number of Small-pox cases and deaths in Battersea and in the County of London since 1819.
| Year. | Battersea. | London. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |
| 1891 | - | - | 114 | 8 |
| 1892 | 2 | 1 | 425 | 41 |
| 1893 | 108 | 12 | 2,815 | 206 |
| 1894 | 8 | 2 | 1,193 | 89 |
| 1895 | 20 | 1 | 980 | 55 |
| 1896 | 4 | - | 225 | 9 |
| 1897 | 1 | - | 104 | 16 |
| 1898 | 1 | - | 33 | 1 |
| 1899 | - | - | 29 | 3 |
| 1900 | - | - | 86 | 4 |
| 1901 | 51 | 4 | 1,700 | 229 |
| 1902 | 169 | 25 | 7,797 | 1,314 |
| 1903 | 33 | - | 416 | 13 |
| 1904 | 7 | - | 491 | 25 |
| 1905 | - | - | 74 | 10 |
| 1906 | - | - | 31 | - |
| 1907 | - | - | - | - |
Contacts were watched on their arrival within the
Borough during 1907 in connection with Small-pox cases that
had occurred on board vessels arriving from abroad. All these
were kept under observation for a period of 16 days.
Scarlet Fever.
During 1907 in the Borough of Battersea, 922 cases of
Scarlet Fever were notified, and 20 deaths were registered
from the disease, giving a case mortality of 21 per cent. In
1906 there were 1,011 cases notified and 24 deaths registered,
i.e. a case mortality of 2.3 per cent. The annual averages for
the ten years (1891-1900) are: (1) notified cases, 979.3, and (2)
deaths, 30.4.
In the following tables are shown the number of cases
and the case mortality per cent, in the Borough and subdistricts.