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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Notifications of Infectious Diseases, 1934, in Wards and Sub-Districts(see also table on page 109).
| Notifiable Disease. | Wards. | Districts.† | Totals. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | N | S | ||
| Small-pox | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Diphtheria | 101 | 71 | 87 | 44 | 72 | 99 | 30 | 26 | 27 | 331 | 226 | 557 |
| Erysipelas | 11 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 40 | 35 | 75 |
| Scarlet fever | 90 | 67 | 75 | 53 | 105 | 36 | 57 | 46 | 319 | 297 | 616 | |
| Enteric(Typhoid) fever | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Puerperal fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 6 | 4 | 10 | ||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 16 | 4 | 20 | ||
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 11 | |||||
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | |
| Polio-myelitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | 4 |
| Polio-encephalitis | — | — | — | \— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis lethargica | ||||||||||||
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
| Dysentery | — | \— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acute primary pneumonia | 49 | 47 | 47 | 17 | 39 | 51 | 11 | 20 | 14 | 182 | 113 | 295 |
| Acute influenzal pneumonia | — | 1 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 27 | 41 | ||||
| •Whooping cough | 49 | 89 | 97 | 16 | 59 | 59 | 28 | 51 | 29 | 294 | 183 | 477 |
| •Measles | 482 | 442 | 471 | 206 | 489 | 400 | 147 | 220 | 165 | 1,138 | 3,022 | |
| Tuberculosis(all forms) | 35 | 18 | 27 | 30 | 28 | 17 | 27 | 31 | 110 | 126 | 236 | |
| Totals | 835 | 755 | 822 | 374 | 802 | 762 | 279 | 428 | 325 | 3,214 | 2,168 | 5,382 |
*Notifiable in Battersea since 1922. † See note, page 8.