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Battersea 1910
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1910
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| Ward. | Estimated Population. | Diphtheria & Membranous Croup. | Erysipelas. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric & Continued Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Cerebrospinal fever. | All Notifiable Infecti's diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No 1 (Nine Elms) | 32,252 | 0.86 | 1.30 | 2.20 | 0.46 | 0.12 | 0.03 | 4.99 |
| ,, 2 (Park) | 20,304 | 1.32 | 1.71 | 1.71 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.04 | 5.02 |
| ,, 3 (Latchmere) | 22,978 | 0.82 | 1.08 | 1.61 | 0.13 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 3.74 |
| ,, 4 (Shaftesbury) | 17,901 | 1.50 | 0.67 | 1.95 | 0.44 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.57 |
| ,, 5 (Church) | 21,840 | 1.28 | 0.77 | 2.42 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 4.67 |
| ,, 6 (Winstanley) | 22,954 | 0.87 | 0.74 | 3.35 | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 5.18 |
| „ 7 (St. John) | 9,248 | 0.86 | 0.32 | 1.94 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 3.44 |
| ,, 8 (Bolingbroke) | 20,909 | 1.14 | 0.28 | 2.08 | 0.09 | 0. 04 | 0.00 | 3.58 |
| ,, 9 (Broomwood) | 19,836 | 1.41 | 0.65 | 3.57 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.05 | 6.10 |
Small-pox.
No case of this disease was notified in Battersea during 1910.
In the County of London 7 cases were notified during the year.
Contacts were watched on arrival within the Borough during
1910 in connection with small-pox cases that had occurred on
board vessels arriving from abroad. All such cases were kept
under observation for a period of sixteen days and no case of smallpox
arose.
Scarlet Fever.
There was again a great decrease in the number of cases of
scarlet fever reported in Battersea during 1910, 439 cases being
notified and 7 deaths were registered from the disease. This is the
lowest number of cases notified in any one year since 1891, with the
exception of the year 1904, when 375 were notified—the lowest
number of cases recorded in the old Parish or Borough of
Battersea. In 1905 the epidemic wave which began to spread over
London reached Battersea, 801 cases being notified in that year ; in
1906, 1,011 cases were notified, and in 1907, 922 cases. In 1908
the wave of epidemicity reached its height, 1,099 cases being registered
in that year, and then began to subside, the number of cases
notified in 1909 falling to 702, and in the year under report, as
stated, to 439 cases.
The death-rate per 1,000 of the population from scarlet fever
in Battersea during 1910, i.e., .03 per 1,000, was the lowest ever
recorded in the old Parish or Borough. This is a most gratifying
fact to be able to record, and is largely, in my opinion, the result of