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Battersea 1925
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925
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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 diarrhœa.
The deaths from these causes in 1925 numbered 64, as compared
with 122 in 1924, a decrease of 48.0 per cent. There was
a corresponding decrease in the zymotic death-rate from 0.71 in
1924 to 0.37 in 1925.
The mean death-rate from each of the principal zymotic diseases for the ten years 1905-1914, and for the ten years 1915-1924, are compared with the corresponding rates for 1924 and 1925 in the following table:—
| ZymoticDiseases. | Number of Deaths from each of the principal Zymotic Diseases in 1924 and 1925, with corresponding Death Rates for those years and for the 10 years 1905-14 and 1915-1924. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Mean Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Increase ( + ) or Decrease (—), 1925 over | |||||
| 1924. | 1925. | 1924. | 1925. | 1905-1914. | 1915-1924. | Previous year. | 1915-1924. | |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | .001 | - | -.001 |
| Measles | 51 | 4 | .298 | .023 | .446 | .325 | -.275 | -.302 |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 8 | .018 | .046 | .081 | .038 | +.028 | +.008 |
| Diphtheria | 25 | 10 | .146 | .058 | .116 | .200 | -.088 | -.142 |
| W hooping-cough | 17 | 20 | .099 | .116 | .273 | .201 | +.017 | -.085 |
| Enteric fever | 2 | 1 | .012 | .006 | .031 | .015 | - .006 | -.009 |
| Diarrhoea and enteritis | 24 | 21 | .140 | .122 | .466 | .313 | -.018 | -. 191 |
| Total | 122 | 64 | .713 | .371 | 1.413 | 1.093 | -.342 | -.722 |
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Chicken-Pox.
During 1925 there were 853 cases of chicken-pox reported, as
compared with 541 in 1924, 617 in 1923, 259 in 1922, and 400 in
1921.