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Battersea 1926
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1926
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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 1926 numbered 119, as compared
with 64 in 1925, an increase of 85-9 per cent. There was
a corresponding increase in the zymotic death-rate from 0.371 in
1925 to 0.692 in 1926.
The mean death-rate from each of the principal zymotic diseases for the ten years 1906-1915, and for the ten years 1916-1925, are compared with the corresponding rates for 1925 and 1926 in the following table:—
| ZymoticDiseases. | Number of Deaths from each of the principal Zymotic Diseases in 1925 and 1926, with corresponding Death Rates for those years and for the 10 years 1906-15 and 1916-1925. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Mean Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Increase (+) or Decrease (—), 1926 over | |||||
| 1925. | 1926. | 1925. | 1926. | 1906-1915. | 1916-1925. | Previous year. | 1916-1925. | |
| Small Pox | — | — | — | — | — | .001 | — | — 001 |
| Measles | 4 | 43 | .023 | .250 | .471 | .230 | + .227 | + .020 |
| Scarlet Fever | 8 | 2 | .046 | .012 | .072 | .037 | — .034 | — .025 |
| Diphtheria | 10 | 20 | .058 | .116 | .129 | .187 | + .058 | — .071 |
| Whooping-cough | 20 | 13 | .116 | .076 | .291 | .331 | —.040 | — .255 |
| Enteric fever | 1 | 1 | .006 | .006 | .032 | .011 | _ | — .005 |
| Diarrhoea and enteritis | 21 | 40 | .122 | .232 | .775 | .293 | + .110 | — .061 |
| Total | 64 | 119 | .371 | .692 | 1.770 | 1.090 | + -321 | — .398 |
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Chicken-Pox.
During 1926 there were 375 cases of chicken-pox reported as
compared with 853 in 1925, 541 in 1924, 617 in 1923, 259 in 1922,
and 400 in 1921,