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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 Puerperal Fever,
Diarrhoea, and other Septic diseases, and a decrease in the number
from Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever,
Measles, Whooping Cough and Influenza.
The greatest decrease occurred from Diphtheria, Measles, and
Whooping Cough, and the greatest increase from Diarrhoea.
From all Zymotic diseases the death-rate was 1.70 (1.54 in
Clapham, 1.49 in Putney, 1.31 in Streatham, 3.04 in Tooting, and
1.89 in Wandsworth), compared with 1.57 in 1905, 1.93 in 1904,
1.72 in 1903, and 2.19 the decennial average.
The rate from the principal Zymotic diseases, viz.:—Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria,
Enteric Fever, and Diarrhoea, was 1.36 per 1,000 (1.18 in Clapham,
1.01 in Putney, .95 in Streatham, 2.72 in Tooting, and 1.59
in Wandsworth), compared with 1.30 in 1905, 1.6o in 1904, 1.49
in 1903, and 1.68 in 1902.
The rate in London was 1.94 per 1,000, compared with r68
in 1905, 2.14 in 1904, 1.73 in 1903, and 2.21 in 1902.
The rate for England and Wales was 1.73, in the 76 Great
Towns, 2.24, in the 142 Smaller Towns 1.71, and in the Rural
England and Wales 1.18.
In out-lying Institutions 52 deaths occurred from Zymotic
diseases (17 belonging to Clapham, five to Putney, four to Streatham,
six to Tooting, and 20 to Wandsworth), compared with 67
in 1905, 58 in 1904, and 32 in 1903.
Of these deaths, 24 occurred in the Union Infirmary, four
from Measles, three from Influenza, six from Whooping Cough,
one from Enteric Fever, one from Zymotic Enteritis, five from
Erysipelas, three from Puerperal Fever, and one from other
Septic diseases; 16 in General and Special Hospitals, one from
Measles, one from Diphtheria, 10 from Diarrhoea and Zymotic
Enteritis, one from Puerperal Fever, and three from other Septic
diseases; and 12 in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums