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Battersea 1924
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1924
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Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
The principal zymotic diseases are small-pox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup), whooping cough,
enteric fever, and diarrhoea.
The deaths from these causes in 1924 numbered 122, as compared
with 114 in 1923, an increase of 7.0 per cent. There was a
corresponding increase in the zymotic death-rate from 0.67 in
1923 to 0.71 in 1924.
The mean death-rate from each of the principal zymotic diseases for the ten years 1904-1913, and for the ten years 1914-1923 are compared with the corresponding rates for 1923 and 1924 in the following table:—
| Disease. | No. of Deaths. | Mean Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Increase (+) or decrease ( - ) during 1924, over | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924. | 1923. | 1904- 13. | 1914- 23. | 1924. | 1923. | Previous year. | Prec'd'ng 10 years (average) | |
| Small Pox | ... | 1 | ... | .001 | ... | .006 | — .006 | — -001 |
| Measles | 51 | 24 | .442 | .321 | .298 | .141 | + .157 | — .023 |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 6 | .073 | .042 | .018 | .035 | — .017 | — .022 |
| Diphtheria | 25 | 34 | .104 | .195 | .146 | .199 | — .053 | — .049 |
| Whooping Cough Enteric Fever | 17 2 | 16 1 | .277 .003 | .203 .016 | .099 .012 | .094 .006 | + .005 + .006 | — .104 — .004 |
| Diarrhoea & Enteritis | 24 | 32 | .519 | .324 | .140 | .188 | — .048 | — .204 |
| Total deaths | 122 | 114 | ... | ... | ... | ... | + 8 | — 57 |
| Total death-rate | 0.71 | 0.67 | 1.418 | 1.102 | .713 | .669 | + .044 | — .389 |
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Chicken-Pox.
During 1924 there were 541 cases of chicken-pox reported as
compared with 617 in 1923, 259 in 1922 and 400 in 1921.
Diarrhœa.
The great decline in the incidence of acute infective enteritis,
which has been such a marked feature of the morbid and vital
statistics of the Borough in recent years, was again manifest in