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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
trace with certainty the cause of infection. In only two cases
could oysters be said to have been the cause, while 11 of the cases
were contracted out of the Borough, two of them in Paris.
Four cases were notified from the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's Hospitals in Tooting, the patients being employed as
nurses there.
In only eight of the cases could the sanitary condition of
the premises, especially with regard to drainage, be described as
bad, requiring the service of notice, but in a few of the cases
there were serious complaints made of the smell from sewer
ventilators in the roadway. In these latter, where such complaints
were found to be well founded, the matter was reported to
the Surveyor and the nuisance remedied.
Puerperal Fever.
14 cases were notified, and seven, or 50 per cent., died,
compared with 15 cases and four deaths in 1900. The number
of deaths is 1.7 under the corrected decennial average.
One of the cases occurred in Clapham, four in Putney, three
in Streatham, four in Tooting, and two in Wandsworth.
The death-rate was .029, compared with .017 in 1900; while
for all London the death-rate was .05 per 1,000.
Erysipelas.
219 notifications were received and three deaths resulted,
compared with 205 notifications and nine deaths in 1900.
Measles.
The number of deaths from Measles during the year was 68,
—16 in Clapham, two in Putney, 11 in Streatham, eight in
Tooting, and 31 in Wandsworth, a decrease of 14 compared with
last year, and 22.7 below the corrected decennial average.