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Battersea 1913
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1913
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TABLE II.
(Required by the Local Government Board to be used in the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.) Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1913.
| At all Ages. | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||||||
| At Ages—Years. | East Battersea. | N.-West Battersea. | East Battersea. | S.-West Battersea. | |||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 9. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||
| Small-pox | |||||||||||||
| Cholera. | |||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 248 | 75 | 151 | 4 | 108 | 85 | 55 | 106 | 83 | 43 | |||
| Membranous Croup | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Erysipelas | 123 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 78 | 17 | 65 | 43 | 15 | 17 | 4 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 897 | 3 | 201 | 593 | 69 | 31 | 391 | 347 | 159 | 387 | 346 | 131 | |
| Typhus Fever | |||||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | ||||||
| Relapsing Fever | |||||||||||||
| Continued Fever | |||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||
| Plague | |||||||||||||
| Cerebro-spitial Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Glanders | |||||||||||||
| Anthrax | |||||||||||||
| Hydrophobia. | |||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 31 | 31 | 20 | 4 | |||||||||
| Polio-myelitis, &c. | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 5 | |||||||||||||
| *Totals | 1,331 | 701 | 103 | 118 | 17 | 596 | 497 | 238 | 519 | 451 | 182 | ||
* The Tuberculosis figures are not included in the total