[Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1911] page 59

Battersea 1911

[Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1911]

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available by which early information of measles cases might be
obtainable by the Local authorities. The deaths of 111 children
in Battersea during 1911 from a preventable disease such as measles,
a number in excess of those from all the other infectious diseases,
with the exception of phthisis, put together, does not suggest that
all practicable steps that could be taken are being taken and it
should not be impossible to devise some more satisfactory means
by which information might be made available by which many if
not most of these deaths might be prevented.
Whooping- Cough.
During 1911, in the Borough of Battersea, 34 deaths were
registered from whooping-cough, as compared with 50 in 1910
The deaths were 28 below the average for the preceding ten years
and were equivalent to a death-rate of -20 per 1,000 as compared
with -33 the mean death-rate for the previous ten years.

Table: In the sub-districts, the number of deaths and the death-rate per 1,000 of the population were as follows :—

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In the sub-districts, the number of deaths and the death-rate per 1,000 of the population were as follows :—

	No. ofdeaths.	Death-rate per1,000 of thepopulation.


East Battersea	22	.31
North-West Battersea	8	.16
South-West Battersea	4	.08

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The deaths under one year of age were 64 per cent, of the
total deaths and from one to five years of age 32 per cent., the total
percentage of deaths under 5 years of age being 97.

Table: The deaths in each of the four quarters of the year were as follows :—

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The deaths in each of the four quarters of the year were as follows :—

First quarter	21
Second quarter	6
Third quarter	5
Fourth quarter	2

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The following is a summary of the number of children excluded
from school attendance during the year 1911, in connection
with the more common infectious diseases, e.g., measles, whooping
cough, &c.

Table: The following is a summary of the number of children excluded from school attendence during the year 1911, in connection with the more common infectious diseases, e.g., measles, whooping cough, &c.

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The following is a summary of the number of children excluded from school attendence during the year 1911, in connection with the more common infectious diseases, e.g., measles, whooping cough, &c.

Disease.	Children excluded on account of infection in their homes.	Number of children suffering.
Measles	1940	1068
Chicken pox	427	206
Whooping cough	211	51
Mumps	435	30

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Table: In the sub-districts, the number of deaths and the death-rate per 1,000 of the population were as follows :—

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Table: The deaths in each of the four quarters of the year were as follows :—

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Table: The following is a summary of the number of children excluded from school attendence during the year 1911, in connection with the more common infectious diseases, e.g., measles, whooping cough, &c.

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Battersea 1911

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Table: In the sub-districts, the number of deaths and the death-rate per 1,000 of the population were as follows :—

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Table: The deaths in each of the four quarters of the year were as follows :—

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Table: The following is a summary of the number of children excluded from school attendence during the year 1911, in connection with the more common infectious diseases, e.g., measles, whooping cough, &amp;c.

Table: The following is a summary of the number of children excluded from school attendence during the year 1911, in connection with the more common infectious diseases, e.g., measles, whooping cough, &c.