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Battersea 1912
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1912
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Seventeen deaths were registered from the disease in the
Borough giving a fatality rate of 0.10 per 1,000 population.
The distribution of the disease in the three registration sub-districts of the Borough, together with the number of deaths among both hospital and home-treated patients during 1912, 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 | 90 | 3 | 87 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 8.8 | 1.3 |
| North-West Battersea | 61 | — | 61 | — | 3 | 3 | 4.9 | 1.2 |
| South-West Battersea | 59 | 6 | 53 | — | 6 | 6 | 10.1 | 1.2 |
In the above table is will be seen that the incidence of the
disease has been greater relatively in East Battersea.
Two hundred and one patients were removed to hospital, or
96 per cent, of the total cases notified. In 1911 the percentage of
cases removed to hospital was 94, and in 1910 92 per cent. In
the sub-districts the percentages of cases removed to hospital
were as follows: North-West Battersea, 1000; East Battersea,
96 0; South-West Battersea, 90.0.
The following table gives the age distribution of the cases notified, and of the fatal cases:-
| Age Periods—Years. | Boro'. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-25 | 25-65 | 65— | ||
| No. of Cases | 5 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 23 | 89 | 25 | 12 | 8 | — | 210 |
| No. of Deaths | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | — | - | 17 |
| Case Mortality per cent. | 4.0 | 14.4 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 8.7 | 6.7 | 4 | 8.3 | - | - | 8.0 |
The total number of houses invaded by diphtheria was 186.
In 8 houses (i.e., 43 per cent.), the drainage was found to be
defective.