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Battersea 1912
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1912
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Similar conclusions are to be drawn from a comparison of the death-rates from the chief zymotic diseases in the different wards of the Borough as shown in the table on page 28.
| Diseases. | Mean Death-rate per 1,000 1902-1911. | Death-rate per 1,000 1912. | Gain in 1912. | Loss in 1912. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | .01 | .00 | .01 | - |
| Measles | .45 | .32 | .13 | — |
| Erysipelas | .04 | .02 | .02 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | .08 | .03 | .05 | — |
| Diphtheria | .10 | .10 | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | .04 | .01 | .03 | — |
| Puerperal Fever | .03 | .005 | .02 | — |
| Whooping Cough | .32 | .23 | .09 | — |
| Zymotic Diarrhœa | .68 | .07 | 61 | - |
In the next table is shown the death-rate per 1,000 population from the chief zymotic diseases arranged in Wards:—
| Ward. | Population, estimated to middle 1912. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Erysipelas. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Enteric,&c. | Puerperal Fever. | Whooping Cough. | Zymotic Diarrhoea. | All chief Zymotic diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Nine Elms | 27,189 | - | .33 | .07 | .07 | .14 | .03 | .00 | .25 | .03 | .95 |
| 2. Park | 17,500 | - | .91 | .11 | .05 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .34 | .05 | 1.48 |
| 3. Latchmere | 20,172 | - | .69 | .00 | .00 | .04 | .00 | 04 | .24 | .14 | 1.19 |
| 4. Shaftesbury | 16,010 | - | .31 | .00 | .00 | .24 | .00 | .00 | .12 | .12 | .81 |
| 5. Church | 19,342 | - | .20 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .36 | .05 | .62 |
| 6. Winstanley | 20,187 | - | .34 | .00 | .04 | .09 | .00 | .00 | .34 | .19 | 1.04 |
| 7. St. John | 8,200 | - | .00 | .00 | .12 | .12 | .00 | .00 | .60 | .00 | .85 |
| 8. Bolingbroke | 18,499 | - | .00 | .00 | .00 | .16 | .05 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .21 |
| 9. Broomwood | 20,540 | - | .00 | .00 | .04 | .09 | .00 | .00 | .04 | .04 | .24 |
In the next table the Seasonal Mortality from the different important zymotic diseases is well shown by arranging the deaths quarterly, thus:-
| Quarter No. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Fever. | Zymotic Diarrhoea. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Cholera. | Influenza. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typhus | Typhoid. | Continued. | ||||||||||||
| 1 | - | 2 | 6 | 1 | 8 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 29 |
| 2 | - | 2 | 12 | 2 | 2 | - | — | - | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | 25 |
| 3 | - | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | - | — | - | 8 | - | - | - | 1 | 28 |
| 4 | - | 43 | 15 | 1 | 5 | - | — | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 73 |
| Year | - | 55 | 40 | 6 | 17 | - | 2 | - | 13 | 4 | 1 | — | 17 | 155 |