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98 Report of the Mcdical Officer of Health.
(15.) Welham Road School. Infants' Department disinfected
on the 24th December on account of an outbreak of
Measles.
Epidemic Influenza.
88 deaths, 38 of males and 50 of females, were due to this
disease, compared with 70 in 1906, and 41 in 1905. There has
thus been an increase of 18 deaths compared with the previous
year, but a decrease of 1.3 compared with the corrected decennial
average.
13 of the deaths occurred in Clapham, six in Putney, 23 in
Streatham, six in Tooting, and 40 in Wandsworth.
The death-rate was 27 per 1,000, compared with 22 in 1906,
and 14 in 1905.
30 of the deaths were of persons from 25 to 65 years, and 40
cf persons over 65 years.
Diarrhoea.
65 deaths, 29 of males and 36 of females, occurred from Diarrhoea
and Zymotic Enteritis during the year, compared with 218
in 1906, 137 in 1905, and 208 in 1904. There has thus been a very
great decrease in the number of deaths from these diseases compared
with the previous year, and also compared with 215, the
corrected decennial average.
10 of the deaths occurred in Clapham, six in Putney, 11 in
Streatham, 28 in Tooting, and 10 in Wandsworth.
In all the sub-districts the number of deaths was considerably
under the number in 1906, the greatest decrease having occurred
in Wandsworth, and the smallest in Tooting.
In Clapham the number decreased from 31 to 10, in Putney
from 16 to six, in Streatham from 38 to 11, in Tooting from 50 to
28, and in Wandsworth from 83 to 10.