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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

Battersea 1921

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921

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Table: The case-rate per 1,000 of the population was 8·12, and 6 deaths were registered from the disease, giving a death-rate

The case-rate per 1,000 of the population was 8ยท12, and 6 deaths were registered from the disease, giving a death-rate

Notifiable Disease.Wards.Districts.Totals
23456789ENS1
Small-pox.......................................
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup58728950182138257777201328184713
Erysipelas111055121926527341475
Scarlet Fever11612716487191353871111384076253421374
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever2...1...21...113328
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1866411151412629661
Puerperal Fever222......5...4. . .65415
Polio-myelitis1.....................11. . .12
Encephalitis Lethargica1111...3...3224612
Cerebro-spinal Fever11......1............21, . .3
Malaria112...2221...35311
Dysentery............1.........1...112
Polio-encephalitis............................ . ..........
Trench Fever............. . .........................
Acute Primary Pneumonia593927203439813101328532249
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia2013113191123440361086
Totals28527230817040558112722324085011566052611