Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1908
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TABLE III.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages Years. | Hast Battersea. | N.-West Battersea. | S.-West Battersea. | East Battersea. | N.-West Battersea. | S.-West Battersea. | ||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | 340 | 7 | 117 | 187 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 162 | 79 | 99 | 159 | 75 | 61 |
Membranous croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 151 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 101 | 17 | 82 | 53 | 16 | 27 | 15 | 5 |
Scarlet fever | 1,099 | 6 | 249 | 714 | 97 | 33 | .. | 568 | 313 | 218 | 562 | 309 | 195 |
Typhus fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric fever | 36 | .. | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | .. | 13 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 1 |
Relapsing fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal fever | 7 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 6 | .. | 5 | 2 | .. | 4 | 1 | .. |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. |
Totals | 1,635 | 15 | 375 | 918 | 139 | 170 | 18 | 832 | 464 | 339 | 766 | 417 | 262 |