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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 1919

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1919

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Table XXXVII. shows the cases of infectious diseases notified
during the year.
The total number of cases, less tuberculosis, was 4,984—863
from Clapham, 226 from Putney, 1,528 from Streatham, 1,083
from Tooting, and 1,284 from Wandsworth—compared with 5,315
in 1918.
The number appears high, but it includes 2,041 cases of measles,
234 of German measles and 386 of whooping cough.
It is also to be noted that during the year under review
encephalitis lethargica, influenzal and other forms of primary
pneumonia, malaria, dysentery and trench fever, were made
notifiable diseases, and these account for 638 of the total notifications
received.