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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

No cases of Small-pox were notified during the year, none in
1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, or 1910, one in 1905, six in 1904, 28 in
1903, and 127 in 1902.
869 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified, compared with 687
in 1910, 987 in 1909, and 1,232 in 1908 : of Diphtheria 510, compared
with 284, 380 and 581; of Enteric Fever 58, compared with 54,
66 and 60; of Puerperal Fever 24, compared with 20, 26 and 14;
and of Erysipelas 202, compared with 182, 192, and 203.
Compared with 1910 there has been an increase in the number
of cases of all the notifiable diseases with the exception of Cerebrospinal
Meningitis.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has
been a decrease in the number of cases of all the notifiable diseases
with the exception of Continued Fever, Puerperal Fever and
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, which show a slight increase.
The total number of cases notified was 1,949 (411 in Clapham,
107 in Putney, 466 in Streatham, 303 in Tooting, and 662 in
Wandsworth), compared with 1,232 in 1910, 1,657 in 1909. and
2,095 in 1908.
The next Table shows the rate per 1,000 persons living in the
Borough, in the separate sub-districts and for the whole of London
for the year and for the previous ten years.