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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total number of cases notified was 510 (110 in Clapham,
34 in Putney, 111 in Streatham, 106 in Tooting, and 149 in Wandsworth),
compared with 284 in 1910, 380 in 1909, and 581 in 1908.
This number was 66 under the corrected, and 16 above the uncorrected
decennial average.
In all the sub-districts there has been an increase compared with
1910, in Clapham of 61, in Putney of 18, in Streatham of 26, in
Tooting of 43, and in Wandsworth of 78.
The greatest number of cases occurred in Wandsworth, and the
smallest in Putney.
The number of cases notified per 1,000 of population was i'65,
compared with .95 in 1910, 1.35 in 1909, 2.11 in 1908, and 235 in 1907,
and in London 17, compared with 1.13, 1.38, 1.64, 1.65
and 170.
428 or 84 per cent, of the cases were removed to hospital
where 25 died, and 82 or 16 per cent, were treated at home with
nine deaths.
The case mortality was 6.6 per cent., compared with 5.6 in
1910, 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 1911
was 83 per cent., compared with 7.9 in 1910, 9.1 in 1909, 9.2 in
1908, 8.89 in 1907, 87 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 11 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.