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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Cases of Infectious Disease (excluding Tuberculosis) notified during the Year 1938, and Deaths from such Diseases.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Battersea. at Ages (Years). | Admitted to Hospital from each Sub-District. | Deaths. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 35- | 45- | 65 & over | Total | n. | S. | ||
| Small-pox | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | ||||
| Diphtheria | 2 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 107 | 25 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 2 | - | 217 | 159 | 58 | 7 |
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 51 | 21 | 14 | _ |
| Scarlet fever- | — | 12 | 16 | 33 | 37 | 105 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 254 | 157 | 88 | _ | |
| Enteric (typhoid) fever | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | _ | _ | 4 | 1 | 2 | _ |
| Continued fever | ||||||||||||||||
| Puerperal fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | —i | 1 | 4 | 3 | _ | _ | 8 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 15 | 6 | _ | _ | 21 | 11 | 6 | _ |
| Meningococcal meningitis | 1 | 1 | _ | |||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 29 | 29 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Polio-myelitis, &c. | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | _ | 5 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 | |||||
| Polio-encephalitis | _ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Encephalitis lethargica | ||||||||||||||||
| Malaria | — | — | — | - | _ | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |
| Dysentery | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 16 | 6 | 3 | — |
| Acute primary pneumonia. | 14 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 25 | 14 | 48 | 22 | 213 | 79 | 57 | 77 |
| Acute influenzal pneumonia | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| Whooping-cough | 35 | 42 | 35 | 47 | 67 | 98 | __ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | 325 | 27 | 21 | 3 | |
| Measles | 99 | 218 | 214 | 379 | 387 | 802 | 53 | 18 | 18 | — | — | 2188 | 222 | 163 | 11 | |
| Totals | 179 | 300 | 287 | 488 | 527 | 1147 | 121 | 51 | 112 | 40 | 72 | 32 | 3356 | 703 | 430 | 113 |
* No record of previous notification.