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Battersea 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough.
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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 diarrhæa.
The deaths from these causes in 1929 numbered 95, as compared
with 111 in 1928, a decrease of 14.4 per cent. There was a
corresponding decrease in the zymotic death-rate from 0.676 in
1928 to 0.587 in 1929.
The mean death-rate from each of the principal zymotic diseases for the ten years 1909-1918, and for the ten years 1919-1928, are compared with the corresponding rates for 1928 and 1929 in the following table:—
| Zymotic Diseases. | Number of Deaths from each of the principal Zymotic Diseases in 1928 and 1929, with corresponding Death Rates for those years and for the 10 years 1909-18 and 1919-1928. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Deaths. | Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Mean Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Increase (+) or Decrease ( - ), 1929 over | |||||
| 1928. | 1929. | 1928. | 1929. | 1909-1918. | 1919-1928. | Previous year. | 1919-1928. | |
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | .001 | - | -.001 |
| Measles | 36 | 5 | .219 | .031 | .479 | .172 | -.188 | -.141 |
| Scarlet Fever | 5 | 4 | .030 | .025 | .042 | .033 | -.005 | -.008 |
| Diphtheria | 26 | 12 | .159 | .074 | .123 | .189 | -.085 | -.115 |
| Whooping-cough | 14 | 43 | .085 | .266 | .265 | .110 | +.181 | +.156 |
| Enteric fever | 1 | 1 | .006 | .006 | .026 | .008 | - | -.002 |
| Diarrhoea and enteritis | 29 | 30 | .177 | .185 | .642 | .221 | + .008 | -.036 |
| Total | 111 | 95 | .676 | .587 | 1.577 | .734 | -.089 | -.147 |
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Chicken-Pox.
During 1929 there were 441 cases of chicken-pox reported, as
compared with 632 in 1928, 671 in 1927, 375 in 1926, and 853 in
1925.
Diarrhœa.
During 1929 the total number of deaths from diarrhœa of
children under 2 years of age was 22, equivalent to a fatality-rate
of 0•14. In 1928 there were 26 deaths and a fatality-rate of 0•16.
The rate per 1,000 registered births in 1929 was 8•40, as compared
with 9•48 in 1928.