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Wandsworth 1909

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

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35
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Ages at Death.
The following Table shows the percentage of deaths to total
deaths at six age periods for each sub-district and for the whole
Borough.

Table: TABLE XIV.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year1909. ( I able 3.)

TABLE XIV.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year1909. ( I able 3.)

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Whole District.Total Cases Notified in each locality.No. of Cases Removed to hospital from each locality.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting. hWandsworth, wClapham.! Putney.Streatham.' Tooting. hWandsworth, wTotal cases removed to hospital.
Under i.1 to 5.5 to 15.lS to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small-pox......................................................
Cholera......................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup)3808117»952832...67251186210856191004990314
Erysipelas192811816115344510303770..................
Scarlet Fever98782535749458...189393601262731682927992242810
Typhus Fever............................................................
Enteric Fever66...61493111311'5198841217647
Relapsing Fever......................................................
Continued Fever2......2...............2........................
Puerperal Fever26.........521...71648..................
Plague.........................................................
Phthisis40121224572S71970215S67185..................
Cerebrospinal meningitis42...11......1...2...11............1
Totals2.05833399818210544543921075913'5653233523911583381,172

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Compared with 1908 the percentage of deaths under one year
was as much as 4.24 lower, due chiefly to the decrease in the
number of deaths of infants from Diarrhœa and Zymotic
Enteritis; from one to five years .28 higher, due to the increase in
the number of deaths from Measles and diseases of the Respiratory
Organs; from five to 15 years 1.09 higher; from 15 to 25
years .02 higher; from 25 to 65 years .54 lower; and from 65
years and upwards 2.39 higher.
There was a considerable diversity in these rates in the
different sub-districts.
In Putney the rate under one year was only 13.27, while in
Tooting it was 24.75, while over 65 years of age Tooting had a
rate of i9'8i and Streatham of 37.01.
Again, at from one to five years the rate was still high in
Tooting and low in Streatham, and also at ages five to 15, while
at ages 15 to 25, 25 to 65, and over 65 the Tooting rates were
much lower and were the lowest of the five sub-districts.