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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of cases notified was 629 (79 in Clapham,
65 in Putney, 157 in Streatham, 138 in Tooting, and 190 in
Wandsworth), compared with 566 in 1906, and 348 in 1905. This
number, although 100 above the uncorrected, is 72 under the
corrected decennial average.
In Clapham there has been a decrease of 27, in Putney an
increase of 30, in Streatham a decrease of eight, in Tooting an
increase of 60, and in Wandsworth an increase of eight, compared
with 1906.
The greatest number of cases occurred in Wandsworth and
the smallest in Putney.
The number of cases notified per 1,000 of population was
1.93, compared with 1.79 in 1906, and 1.21 in 1905, and in London
1.65, compared with 1.70.
512 or 81.4 per cent. of the cases were removed to hospital
where 31 died, and 117 or 18.6 per cent. were treated at home
with 10 deaths.
The case mortality was 6.3 per cent., compared with 8'9 per
cent. in 1906, 8.9 in 1905, and 10.8 in 1904.
The case mortality for the whole of London for the year 1907
was 8.89 per cent., compared with 8.7 per cent. in 1906, and 8.5 in
1905.
The case mortality among cases treated in hospital was 6.05
per cent., and among those treated at home 8.5 per cent. The
great reduction in the mortality is to a large extent due to the
earlier use of antitoxin, both in the cases treated in hospital and
in those treated at home.
The following Table shows the number of cases, the caserate
per 1,000 living, for the year and for the 10 previous years,
the number of deaths and the death-rate for the whole Borough,
as well as for the separate sub-districts.
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