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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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Compared with the decennial average there has been a decrease
in the number of deaths from Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Enteric Fever, Puerperal Fever, Whooping Cough, and Influenza, and
an Increase from Erysipelas, Measles, Diairhcea, and other zymotic
diseases.
The increase is much greater from Diarrhoea than from any other
disease in this group.
The death-rate per 1,000 from all these zymotic diseases was
i'93, compared with 1*72 in 1903, 2*18 in 1902, r8i in 1901, 2-12 in
1900, and 2*69 the decennial average.
The death-rate from the principal zymotic diseases, viz., Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever, and Diarrhoea was, i*6o per i,ooo, compared with 1*49 in 1903
and 1-68 in 1902.
The rate in London for the year was 2'14, compared with 173
per 1,000 in 1903 and 2-2i in 1902.
In out-lying institutions 58 deaths occurred from these diseases,
(20 belonging to Clapham, four to Putney, 12 to Streatham, three to
Tooting, and 19 to Wandsworth), compared with 32 in 1903, and 69
in 1902.
Of these deaths 26 occurred in the Union Infirmary, 15 from
Measles, three from Whooping Cough, seven from Erysipelas, and one
from other septic diseases ; 22 in general and special hospitals, one
from Measles, one from Iiifluenza, one from Diphtheria, one from
Enteric Fever, 12 .from Diarrhoea and Zymotic Enteritis, and six from
other septic diseases ; and 10 in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, one from Measles, two from Scarlet Fever, and seven
from Diphtheria.
In internal institutions, 67 deaths of persons not belonging to
the Borough occurred. Of these 52 occurred in the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board at Tooting, one from Measles, 17 from
Scarlet Fever, 21 from Diphtheria, it from Enteric Fever, and two
from other septic diseases. Six occurred in the Middlesex County
Lunatic Asylum, three from Diarrhoea, two from Erysipelas, and one
from Puerperal Fever. Three from Erysipelas in Tooting Bee
Asylum ; one from Enteric Fever in H.M. Prison ; one from Influenza