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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 1911
[Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1911]
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The distribution of the disease in the three registration subdistricts of the Borough together with the number of deaths among both hospital and home-treated patients during 1911 is shown in the following table.
| Registration Sub-Districts. | No. of cases notified. | Cases treated at home. | Cases removed to hospital. | No. of Deaths. | Case-mortality per cent. | Case-rate per 1,000 population. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At home. | At hospital. | Total. | ||||||
| East Battersea | 91 | 2 | 89 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 12.1 | 1.3 |
| North-West Battersea | 68 | 2 | 66 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 11.7 | 1.3 |
| South-West Battersea | 49 | 7 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4.1 | 1.0 |
In the above table it will be seen that the disease has been
fairly equally distributed over the population of East and NorthWest
Battersea, South-West Battersea as would be expected
suffering less than the two first-mentioned districts.
One hundred and ninety-seven, or 94.7 per cent., of the cases
notified were removed to hospital. In 1910 the percentage of
cases removed to hospital was 92.3 and in 1909 94.7 per cent.
In the sub-districts the percentages of cases removed to hospital
were as follows:—East Battersea 98, North-West Battersea 97,
South-West Battersea 86.
The following table gives the age distribution of the cases notified and of the fatal cases.
| Age Periods—Years. | Boro'. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-25 | 25-65 | 65— | ||
| No. of Cases | , 3 | 14 | 17 | 30 | 33 | 67 | 28 | 11 | 5 | .. | 208 |
| No. of Deaths | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 21 |
| Case Mortality per cent. | 33.3 | 14.3 | 23.5 | 3.3 | 18.2 | 10.5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 10.1 |
The total number of houses invaded by diphtheria was 182.
In 19 houses (i.e., 10 per cent.), the drainage was found to be
defective.