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Case-rate
per 1,000
population.
Death-rate
per 1,000
population.
Casemortality
per cent.
East Battersea ·05 ·01 25
North-West Battersea ·16 ·08 50
South-West Battersea ·06 ·02 33
The Borough ·08 ·08 40
In the County of London the case-rate was 0.16 per 1,000
population.
Of the 13 typhoid-infected houses, 3 (i.e., 23 percent.) showed,
on inspection, defective traps, fittings, or appliances. In 2 of
the houses the drains as well were found to be defective.
The source of infection in two cases was traceable to personal
infection; in one case to shell-fish (mussels); in one case to fried
fish; one case contracted the disease outside the Borough; and
in the remaining ten cases the source of infection was merely
conjectural.
Puerperal Fever.
During 1913, in the Borough of Battersea, nine cases of
puerperal fever were notified, and six deaths were registered from
the disease, giving a case-mortality of 66.6 per cent. The case
rate was 0.05, and was equal to the case-rate for the preceding
ten years. The death-rate was 0.03, or 0.01 above the decennial
average. The death-rate for London was 0.03 per 1,000 population.
The six deaths from puerperal fever in 1913 were distributed
as follows:—East Battersea, two; North-West Battersea, two;
South-West Battersea, two.
In 1912 five cases of puerperal fever and one death was registered
from the disease. In 1911 nine cases were notified and two
deaths registered from the disease.
Erysipelas.
During 1913, in the Borough of Battersea, 123 cases of
erysipelas were notified, and five deaths were registered from the
disease, as oompared with 134 cases and four deaths in 1912.
The case-mortality was 4 per cent., as compared with 2.9 per
cent, in 1912, and 1.8 per cent, in 1911. The case-rate was 0.73
and the death-rate 0.02, being 0.15 and 0.02 below the decennial
average respectively.