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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE LXXIV.

TABLE LXXIV.

Death-rate per 1,000:—
190619071908190919101911
Small-pox..................
Diarrhœa1.15.46.64.41.301.13
Diphtheria.18.15.13.10.05.11
Whooping Cough.20.38.20.23.22.21
Scarlet Fever07.08.07.04.04.03
Influenza.26.32.28.30.18.08
Enteric Fever.05.03.02.02.026.029
Measles.24.24.15.37.14.74
Tuberculous Diseases1.401.281.341.291 .171.26

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Acute Polio-Myelitis.
On the 1st September, 1911, the above disease was made
notifiable in London and since that date five cases were notified
in this Borough, and 69 in the whole of London.
Acute Polio-Myelitis has Becn for many years known under
the name of Infantile Paralysis, and occurs chiefly among children.
In recent years greater attention has Becn called to it on
account of epidemics in America, Australia and Sweden.
In this country localised outbreaks have occurred in Devon,
Cornwall, and in the Midlands, and these outbreaks have Becn
investigated by the Local Government Board.