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Erysipelas.
There were 78 cases of Erysipelas notified and 2 deaths were
recorded from the disease during 1927 in Battersea. The casemortality
was 2.56 per cent. and the death-rate per 1,000 population
was 0.012.
Measles.
The number of cases of Measles notified or otherwise reported
in 1927 was 312 and there was one death recorded from the disease.
Of the 312 cases 265 were notified by medical practitioners under
the Regulations—The Battersea (Measles and Whooping Cough)
Regulations, 1922—and the remaining 47 cases were reported by
the public elementary schools or by the parents, etc.
Whooping-Cough.
During 1927 there were 507 cases of Whooping-Cough notified
under the Battersea (Measles and Whooping-Cough) Regulations,
1922 to the Medical Officer of Health and 242 additional cases were
reported from the public elementary schools and other sources.
There were 15 deaths registered from this disease, the deathrate
being 0.089, as compared with 13 deaths and a death rate of
0.076 in 1926, 20 deaths and a death-rate of 0.116 in 1925, 17 deaths
and a death-rate of 0.099 in 1924, 16 deaths and a death-rate of
0.095 in 1923 and 22 deaths and a death-rate of 0.13 in 1922.
The total number of cases notified or otherwise reported during
1927 was 749 as compared with 1,210 in 1926, 1,320 in 1925, 816
in 1924 and 1,024 in 1923, the decrease in 1927 compared with
1926 being 38.1 per cent.
The disease, with measles, was made compulsorily notifiable
in Battersea in 1922, and the precautionary measures taken against
the disease are similar to those in connection with the latter
disease, in view of the danger to life in the younger children.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During 1927 there were 308 cases of Tuberculosis (all forms)
notified in Battersea as compared with 344 in 1926 and 335 in
1925.