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Wandsworth 1909

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

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54
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
I he number of notifications of cases received in this Boroughi
for the year and for the previous 10 years is shown in the following-
Table, as also the number above or below the corrected,
decennial average.
TABLE XXX.
1899
I900
I901
I902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1909
No. above
decennial
average.
No. below
decennial
average.
Small-pox
...
4
34
127
30
8
2
...
...
...
...
...
265
Scarlatina
894
672
684
1063
835
79'
1507
1079
'343
1251
997
...
288
Diphtheria
615
454
466
743
533
4°3
354
568
638
598
397
...
290
Membranous
Croun
6
6
3
7
6
6
3
5
...
...
...
...
...
Typhus
Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
••
...
...
Enteric
124
153
96
138
111
76
101
101
72
63
66
...
65.4
Continued
...
1
1
1
3
3
1
1
...
...
2
.7
...
Relapsing
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Puerperal
13
15
14
21
17
16
22
31
37
17
34
8.2
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Erysipelas
234
205
219
235
249
299
277
308
239
225
217
...
99
Cerebrospinal
fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
5
4
...
...
Total
1886
1510
1517
2336
1784
1602
2267
2093
2332
2159
1717
...
757
The following Table shows the total number of cases of
infectious diseases notified during the year, the number removed
to hospital, the number that died in hospital and at home, as well
as the total number of deaths