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Wandsworth 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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49
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The next Table shows the number of deaths from these
diseases during the year and for the 10 previous years. This
Table is corrected for Institutions, as a large number of deaths
registered in the Borough occurred in the Fountain and Grove
Fever Hospitals, and belong to other Metropolitan Boroughs.
The number above or below the corrected decennial average is
also shown.

Table: TABLE XXIX.

TABLE XXIX.

189718981899I9001901190219031904190519061907
1907No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
Small-pox............326..................3.8
Scarlet Fever201581615241813281922...2.1
Diphtheria1038865414270454131541...36.3
Membranous Croup3...4...
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever1616172615301911111510...13.3
Cont'd Fever1............2......111.34...
Puerpl. Fever59447865811101.2...
Cholera.......................................
Erysipelas41199318513141010...2.7
Measles2810759826894109104896568...38.7
Whooping C.4181654160648748755510522.7...
Influenza49751228741933957417088...1.3
Diarrhœa.16219419;1S6164939620813721865...150
Other septic Diseases......158131011161610....6
Totals438596549471426535434511451530430...225

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The total number of deaths from these diseases was 430, 72
in Clapham, 34 in Putney, 92 in Streatham, 91 in Tooting, and
141 in Wandsworth, a decrease of 100 compared with 1906, and
of 225 compared with the corrected decennial average.
Compared with 1906, there has been an increase in the
number of deaths from Scarlet Fever, Measles, Whooping Cough,
and Influenza, and a decrease in the number of deaths from
Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Puerperal Fever, Diarrhœa, and other
Septic diseases, while from Continued Fever and Erysipelas the
number of deaths was the same.