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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has been an
increase in the number of deaths from Scarlet Fever, Puerperal Fever,
Erysipelas, and other zymotic diseases, and a decrease in the number
from Small-pox, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Measles, Whooping
Cough, Influenza and Diarrhoea.
The largest decrease occurred from Diphtheria, Influenza and
Diarrhoea.
The death-rate per 1,000 from all these diseases was 1.57 (1.35 in
Clapham, 1.69 in Putney, no in Streatham, 273 in Tooting, and 1.87
in Wandsworth), compared with 1.93 in 1904, 1.72 in 1903, 2.18 in
1902, 1.81 in 1901, and 2-26 the decennial average
The death-rate from the principal zymotic diseases, viz., Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever and Diarrhoea was 1.30 per 1,000, compared with 1.6o in 1904,
1.49 in 1903, and 1.68 in 1902.
The rate in London for the year was 1.68 per 1,000, compared
with 2.14 in 1904, 1.73 in 1903, and 2.21 in 1902.
The rate for England and Wales for the year was 1.94, in the 76
great towns 2.49, in the 141 smaller towns 2.02, and in Rural
England and Wales 1.28.
In out-lying Institutions 67 deaths occurred from zymotic diseases
(24 belonging to Clapham, three to Putney, 13 to Streatham, six to
Tooting and 21 to Wandsworth), compared with 58 in 1904, and 32 in
1903.
Of these deaths 33 occurred in the Union Infirmary, 17 from
Measles, three from Influenza, six from Whooping Cough, five from
Erysipelas, and two from Puerperal Fever ; 24 in General and Special
Hospitals, one each from Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever
and Intermittent Fever, nine from Diarrhoea and Zymotic Enteritis,
three from Erysipelas, eight from other septic diseases; and 10 in the
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, eight from Scarlet
Fever and two from Diphtheria.
In Internal Institutions 89 deaths occurred of persons not
belonging to the Borough, compared with 67 in 1904.