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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1918
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1918
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In Table XXV. is shown the total number of cases notified
since 1909, the number of deaths in each year since that date, the
total deaths, the number removed from the district as far as could
be ascertained, the number who were stated to have recovered, the
number in which no inquiries were made, and the total number of
cases still on the Register.
| Year. | Cases Reported. | Deaths. | Removed. | Recovered. | No Inquiries. | Cases on Register. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 19121913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | Total. | |||||||
| 389 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 110 | 15 | 4 | 33 | |||||||
| 77 | 37 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 159' | 92 | 5 | ||||||||
| 514 | 113 | 173 | 14 | 45 | ||||||||||||
| 855 | 105 | 31 | 13 | 7 | 437 | 52 | ||||||||||
| 783 | 77 | 41 | 5 | 337 | ||||||||||||
| 37 | 335 | |||||||||||||||
| 27 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 590 | 37 | 1 | 245 | |||||||||||||
| 39 | 324 | |||||||||||||||
| 777 | 552 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 125 | 361 | 328 | 333 | 374 | 1,263 | 110 | 9 | ||||||||
With regard to the notification of cases of non-pulmonary
Tuberculosis, in all 218 cases were notified, 35 from Clapham,
10 from Putney, 47 from Streatham, 37 from Tooting, and 89
from Wandsworth.
Table XXVI. shows the number of these cases notified classified
according to the part of the body affected, as well as the number of
deaths in each class.