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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of cases notified was 284 (49 in Clapham,
16 in Putney, 85 in Streatham, 63 in Tooting, and 71 in Wandsworth),
compared with 380 in 1909, 581 in 1908, 629 in 1907, and
566 in 1906. This number was 339 under the corrected, and 227
under the uncorrected decennial average.
In all the sub-districts with the exception of Tooting there
has been a decrease compared with 1909. In Clapham of 18, in
Putney of nine, in Streatham of 34, in Wandsworth of 37, while
in Tooting there was an increase of two.
The greatest number of cases occurred in Streatham, and the
smallest in Putney.
The number of cases notified per 1,000 of population was .82,
compared with 1.10 in 1909, 1.73 in 1908, 1.93 in 1907, and 1.79 in
1906, and in London 1.13, compared with 1.38, 1.64,1.65 and 1.70.
224 or 79 per cent. of the cases were removed to hospital
where 13 died, and 60 or 21 per cent, were treated at home with
three deaths.
The case mortality was 5.6 per cent. compared with 7.6 in
1909, 6.3 in 1908, 6.3 in 1907, 8.9 in 1906, 8.9 in 1905, and 10.8 in
1904
The case mortality for the whole of London for the year 1910
was 7.9 per cent. compared with 9.1 in 1909, 9.2 in 1908, 8.89 in
1907, 8.7 in 1906, and 8.5 in 1905.
The case mortality among cases treated in hospital was 5.8
per cent. and among those treated at home 5 per cent.
The following Table shows the number of cases, the case-rate
per 1,000 living, for the year and for the 10 previous years, the
number of deaths and the death-rate for the whole Borough, as
well as for the separate sub-districts.