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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Erysipelas, Measles, Diarrhoea, Tuberculous diseases, and other
infective diseases, and a decrease in the number of deaths from
Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, and Influenza.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has been
an increase in the number of deaths from Measles, Diarrhoea and
other infective diseases, but a decrease in all the others.
From all infective diseases the death-rate was 374 per 1,000,
(3.69 in Clapham, 2.57 in Putney, 2.89 in Streatham, 4.84 in
Tooting, and 4.65 in Wandsworth), compared with 2.23 in 1910,
and 3.28 the decennial average.
The rate from the principal infective diseases, viz.:—Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever, and Diarrhoea, was 2.26 per 1,000 (202 in Clapham, 1.41
in Putney, 1.55 in Streatham, 3.28 in Tooting, and 3.07 in Wandsworth),
compared with 78 in 1910.
The high rate from these diseases was due to the increase in
the number of deaths from Measles and Diarrhoea.
In out lying Institutions 316 deaths occurred from Infective
diseases (60 belonging to Clapham, 27 to Putney, 64 to Streatham,
45 to Tooting, and 120 to Wandsworth), compared with 196 in
1910.
Of these deaths 136 occurred in Workhouse Infirmaries, one
from Enteric Fever, one from Diphtheria, two from Erysipelas,
66 from Tuberculous diseases, four from Puerperal Fever, one from
Measles, three from Whooping Cough, 53 from Diarrhoea, and five
from other infective diseases; 113 in General and Special Hospitals,
two from Whooping Cough, two from Diphtheria, three from
Influenza, 44 from Diarrhoea, 59 from Tuberculous diseases, and three
from other infective diseases; 16 in Public Lunatic Asylums, 10
from Tuberculous diseases and six from Diarrhoea; and 51 in the
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, two from Whooping
Cough, two from Diphtheria, three from Enteric Fever, one
from Diarrhoea, and one from Cerebro-spinal Fever.
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