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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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The table below gives particulars in two-yearly periods of the biennial epidemics of measles which have occurred since the Regu-lations requiring the notification of measles in Battersea came into force. Incidence and Mortality of Measles in Epidemic Periods, 1921-1936, and in 1937.
| Period. | Cases. | Deaths. | Notified or reported. | Per 1,000 population. | No. | Per 1,000 population. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10. | All ages. | ||||||||||||
| 1921-2 | 3,209 | 9·483 | 68 | 1·13 | ·201 | 2·12 | |||||||
| 1923-4 | 4,111 | 12·035 | 75 | 1·28 | ·220 | 1·82 | |||||||
| 1925-6 | 4,997 | 14·526 | 47 | ·87 | ·137 | 0·94 | |||||||
| 1927-8 | 4,197 | 12·600 | 37 | ·70 | ·111 | 0·88 | |||||||
| 1929-30 | 3,921 | 12·158 | 43 | ·83 | ·133 | 1·10 | |||||||
| 1931-2 | 3,002 | 9·476 | 25 | ·51 | ·079 | 0·83 | |||||||
| 1933-4 | 4,219 | 13·839 | 33 | ·72 | ·108 | 0·78 | |||||||
| 1935-6 | 2,702 | 9·200 | 23 | ·54 | ·078 | 0·85 | |||||||
| 1937 | 632 | 4.404 | 3 | ·14 | ·021 | 0·47 | |||||||
The Health Visitors paid 958 visits to the cases notified,
reported or suspected.
Whooping-Cough.
During 1937 there were 633 cases of Whooping-Cough notified
under the Battersea (Measles and Whooping-Cough) Regulations,
1922, to the Medical Officer of Health and 284 other cases were
reported from the public elementary schools and other sources.
The total number of cases notified or otherwise reported during
1937 was 917, as compared with 783 in 1936, 1,065 in 1935, 682 in
1934 and 976 in 1933, the increase in 1937 compared with 1936
being 17 per cent. Of the total cases, notified and reported,
104 were removed to hospital.
There were 9 deaths registered from this disease, the deathrate
being 0·06.
Whooping-Cough, 1937, and Ten Previous Years.
| Year. | Cases. | Deaths. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified or reported. | Per 1,000 population. | Registered. | Per 1,000 population. | Per 100 cases. | |
| 1927 | 749 | 4·43 | 15 | 0·089 | 2·00 |
| 1928 | 1,228 | 7·48 | 14 | 0·085 | 1·14 |
| 1929 | 1,317 | 8·14 | 43 | 0·266 | 3·26 |
| 1930 | 537 | 3·34 | 7 | 0·044 | 1·30 |
| 1931 | 747 | 4·67 | 5 | 0·031 | 0·67 |
| 1932 | 1,109 | 7·06 | 11 | 0·070 | 0·99 |
| 1933 | 976 | 6·34 | 12 | 0·078 | 1·23 |
| 1934 | 682 | 4·52 | 7 | 0·046 | 1·03 |
| 1935 | 1,065 | 7·19 | 9 | 0·061 | 0·85 |
| 1936 | 783 | 5·38 | 11 | 0·076 | 1·40 |
| Average | 919 | 5·86 | 13 | 0·085 | 1·39 |
| 1937 | 917 | 6·39 | 9 | 0·063 | 0·98 |