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importance of early medical attention; removal to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's hospital where the home conditions of the patient
are unsatisfactory.. During 1923,91 cases were removed to hospital.
Whooping-Cough.
During 1923, 580 cases of whooping-cough were notified under
the Battersea (Measles and Whooping-Cough) Regulations, 1922, to
the Medical Officer of Health.
There were 16 deaths registered from the disease, the death-rate
being 0-095, as compared with 22 deaths and a mortality-rate of 0.13
in 1922 and 30 deaths and a death-rate of 0.18 in 1921.
Cancer.
During 1923, the number of deaths registered from cancer of
persons belonging to Battersea was 242 (males 124, females 118),
as compared with 225 in 1922 and 189 in 1921.
The average number of deaths from cancer during the past
5 years was 211. The death-rate from the disease per 1,000
of the population, was 142 in 1923, as compared with 133
in 1922 and 112 in 1921.