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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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TABLE II.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in the Borough of Battersea. | Total Cases Notified in each Sub-District | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital from each Sub-District. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 to 5 years. | 5 to 15 years. | 15 to 25 years. | 25 to 65 years. | 65 years and upwards. | E. | N.W. | S.W. | E. | N.W. | S.W. | |
| Small-pox | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Diphtheria | 489 | 9 | 141 | 284 | 38 | 17 | 247 | 184 | 58 | 246 | 184 | 58 | |
| Membranous Croup | |||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 76 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 53 | 7 | 37 | 26 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 2 |
| Scarlet Fever | 566 | 4 | 151 | 332 | 50 | 29 | 275 | 177 | 114 | 273 | 175 | 83 | |
| Enteric Fever | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Continued Fever | |||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 9 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 20 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 34 | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| Polio-myelitis, &c. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Polio-encephalitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Malaria | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Dysentery | |||||||||||||
| Acute Influenzal Pneu | 43 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Acute Primary Pneu. | 321 | 30 | 60 | 54 | 44 | 109 | 24 | 150 | 129 | 42 | 57 | 38 | 18 |
| Totals | 1,575 | 83 | 361 | 684 | 151 | 263 | 33 | 774 | 540 | 261 | 627 | 413 | 173 |
| Totals | 1,861 | 83 | 369 | 706 | 247 | 420 | 36 | 887 | 619 | 355 | 627 | 413 | 173 |
| Whooping-cough* | 399 | 60 | 235 | 101 | 2 | 1 | 120 | 165 | 114 | 13 | 19 | 8 | |
| Measles* | 2,909 | 149 | 1,547 | 1,179 | 22 | 12 | 1,328 | 960 | 621 | 125 | 84 | 29 | |
| Grand Totals | 5,169 | 292 | 2,151 | 1,986 | 271 | 433 | 36 | 2,335 | 1,744 | 1,090 | 765 | 516 | 210 |