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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
Wandsworth 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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Notification of Infectious Diseases.
The number of infectious diseases notified during the
year was 568, or 168 more than in 1891, and the resulting
deaths 55, or 9.6 percent, of all cases notified, compared
with 9.75 of the previous year. The numbers of the several
diseases, the number of patients scut to Hospital and
the number of deaths that occurred in Hospital as well as
in the sub-district arc recorded in the following Table .—
| DISEASE. | No. cases notified. | No. patients removed to Hospital. | No. died in Hospital. | No. died at Home. | Total deaths in Hospital and at Home. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox (modified) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Scarlatina | 303 | 143 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Erysipelas | 132 | 1 | .. | 10 | 10 |
| Diphtheria | 105 | 34 | 20 | 27 | |
| Membranous-Croup | 12 | • • | • • | 6 | 6 |
| Enteric Fever | 27 | 10 | • • | • • | ... |
| Continued Fever | 4 | .. | • • | 1 | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | • • | • • | 2 | 2 |
| Typhus Fever | .. | .. | • • | •• | .. |
| Total | 588 | 188 | 11 | 44 | 55 |