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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
with respect to which conscientious objection certificates were
received be included the percentage of unvaccinated children in
the Borough would be 32.3, a very large increase compared with
former years.
Scarlet Fever.
687 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified during the year,
compared with 987 in 1909, 1,232 in 1908, and 1,330 in 1907.
106 of these were in Clapham, 51 in Putney, 199 in Streatham,
100 in Tooting, and 231 in Wandsworth.
579 or 84 per cent, of these cases were removed to the
hospital where 12 died, and 108 or 16 per cent, were treated at
home with no death.
The total number of deaths was 12, of which three were in
Clapham, none in Putney, four in Streatham, two in Tooting, and
three in Wandsworth.
The percentage of cases removed to hospital, viz. : 84, is
higher than in 1909, when it was 82 per cent. In 1908, 88.8 per
cent. were removed; in 1907, 84.8; in 1906, 83.8; in 1905, 84.1;
in 1904, 81.6; in 1903, 78.1; in 1902, 75; and in 1901, 70.6 per
cent.
The case mortality was 1.77 per cent. compared with 14.2 in
1909, 1.7 in 1908, 1.65 in 1907, 1.78 in 1906, 1.87 in 1905, and
1.74 in 1904.
The mortality among cases removed to hospital was 1.6 per
cent. compared with 1.6 in 1909, and among those treated at
home no death occurred, compared with .57 in 1909. The
mortality among the home-treated cases was thus much lower
than among those cases treated in hospital.