Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925
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Notifications of Infectious Diseases, 1925, in Wards and Sub-Districts.
Notifiable Disease. | Wards. | Districts. | Totals. | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | E | N | S | ||
Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 69 | 36 | 68 | 38 | 64 | 79 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 153 | 199 | 44 | 396 |
Erysipelas | 13 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 33 | 21 | 13 | 67 |
Scarlet Fever | 94 | 47 | 58 | 37 | 80 | 91 | 19 | 35 | 36 | 207 | 198 | 92 | 497 |
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | — | 6 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 32 |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 2 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Polio-mvelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 2 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | — | - | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Acute Primary Pneumonia | 43 | 27 | 33 | 16 | 17 | 62 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 100 | 95 | 18 | 213 |
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 16 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 38 | 23 | 11 | 72 |
Whooping Cough* | 91 | 110 | 128 | 61 | 117 | 131 | 40 | 57 | 42 | 309 | 326 | 142 | 777 |
Measles* | 26 | 25 | 120 | 48 | 71 | 313 | 29 | 41 | 20 | 117 | 474 | 102 | 693 |
Totals | 370 | 271 | 435 | 215 | 368 | 703 | 108 | 171 | 129 | 986 | 1,354 | 430 | 2,770 |
* Notifiable in Battersea from 24th April, 1922.