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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1908

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE XL V.—continued.

TABLE XL V.—continued.

School.Diseases.
Measles.Chicken-pox.Whooping Cough.Mumps.RingwormTotal.
Brought forward940316352962741,978
Tooting—
Ensham Street241414...456
Fountain Road261213131579
Franciscan Road2.........57
Sellincourt Road6l1881O24121
Tooting Graveney5414371217134
Undine Street R.C.211......1032
Total18859723575429
Wandsworth—
All Saints'2............2
Brandlehow Road11711525
Cambourne Road2.........24
Earlsfield94432437171
Eltringham Street2852421
Frogmore181...313
Garratt Lane1598162371
Merton Road46121121485
St. Anne's2......1...3
St. Joseph's39831657
Southfield166968317290
Swaffield Road9325372122198
Waldron Road4124292625145
Wandle8716391234188
Warple Way12351223
West Hill253911250
Total628233188912061,346
Grand Total1,7566086122225553,753

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Whooping Cough.
59 deaths were registered during the year, 25 of males and
34 of females, a decrease of 46 compared with 1907, and of 30
compared with the decennial average. Eight of the deaths
occurred in Clapham, four in Putney, 17 in Streatham, 12 in
Tooting, and 18 in Wandsworth.
25 of the deaths were of infants under one year, 32 of children
from one to five years, and two from five to 15 years.