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Report of the Medical Offieer 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 XXVIII.
1899
1900
1901
I902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1909
No. above
corrected
average.
No. below
corrected
average.
Small-pox
...
...
3
26
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
.37
Scarlet Fever
8
16
15
24
18
13
28
19
22
21
14
...
9.3
Diphtheria
Membranous
Croup
65
41
42
70
45
41
31
50
41
37
29
...
30.3
4
...
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Enteric Fever
17
26
15
30
19
11
11
'5
10
7
6
...
14.4
Cont'd Fever
...
...
...
2
...
...
1
1
1
2
1
.11
...
Puerpl. Fever
4
4
7
8
6
5
8
11
10
6
10
1.26
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
......
Erysipelas
9
9
3
18
5
13
14
10
10
6
8
...
4.3
Measles
59
82
68
94
109
104
89
65
68
45
108
7.6
17.2
Whooping C.
65
45
60
64
87
48
75
55
105
59
67
...
2.4
Influenza
122
87
41
93
39
57
41
70
88
82
89
...
...
Diarrhoea
195
156
164
93
96
208
137
218
65
101
52
...
129.9
Other Septic
Diseases
...
5
8
13
10
11
16
16
10
11
14
I.2
...
Totals
549
471 426
535
434
511
451
530
43o
377
398
...
200.6
The total number of deaths from these diseases was 398, 85,
in Clapham, 27 in Putney, 94 in Streatham, 60 in Tooting, and 132
in Wandsworth, an increase of 21 compared with 1908, but a
decrease of 200 compared with the corrected decennial average.
Compared with 1908 there has been an increase in the number
of deaths from Puerperal Fever, Erysipelas, Measles, Whooping
Cough, Influenza, and other Septic diseases, and a decrease in the
number of deaths from Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever,
Continued Fever, and Diarrha.