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51
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has
been an increase in the number of deaths from other Continued
Fevers, Puerperal Fever, Measles, and other Septic diseases, and
a decrease in Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Erysipelas,
Whooping Cough, Influenza, and Diarrhoea.
From all Zymotic diseases the death-rate was 1.47 per 1,000
(1.23 in Clapham, .85 in Putney, .87 in Streatham, 1.87 in Tooting,
and 1.33 in Wandsworth), compared with 114 in 1908, 1.34 in
1907, 1.70 in 1906, 1.57 in 1905, 1.93 in 1904, and 1.8o the
decennial average.
The rate from the principal Zymotic diseases, viz. :—Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria,
Enteric Fever, and Diarrhoea, was .81 per 1,000 (.88 in Clapham,
.47 in Putney, .48 in Streatham, 1.43 in Tooting, and 1.02 in
Wandsworth), compared with .82 in 1908, .97 in 1907, 1.36 in
1906, 1.30 in 1905, 1.60 in 1904.
The rate in London was 1.30 per 1,000, compared with 1 '37
in 1908, 1.37 in 1907, 1.94 in 1906, 1.68 in 1905, and 2.14 in 1904.
The rate for England and Wales was 1.12, compared with
1.29 in 1908; in the 76 Great Towns 142, compared with 159, in
the 143 Smaller Towns ro8, compared with i'26; and in Rural.
England and Wales '80, compared with .99.
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In out-lying Institutions 96 deaths occurred from Zymotic
diseases (21 belonging to Clapham, four to Putney, 16 to Streatham,
13 to Tooting, and 42 to Wandsworth), compared with 54 in
1908, 48 in 1907, 52 in 1906, 67 in 1905, and 58 in 1904.
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Of these deaths 68 occurred in Workhouse Infirmaries, 27
from Measles, three from Influenza, 24 from Whooping Cough,,
three from Diarrhoea, four from Erysipelas, four from Puerperal
Fever, and three from other Septic diseases; 12 in General and'
Special Hospitals, two from Influenza, three from Diphtheria, one
from Diarrhoea, one from Enteric Fever, one from Puerperal Fever,,
and four from other Septic diseases; six in Public Lunatic
Asylums, two from Diarrhoea and four from Influenza; and 10 in