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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 41
Compared with 1911 there has been an increase in the number
of deaths from Scarlet Fever, Puerperal Fever, Influenza, and
other infective diseases, and a decrease in the number of deaths
from Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Enteric Fever, Erysipelas,
Measles, Diarrhoea and Tuberculous diseases.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has been
an increase in the number of deaths from Puerperal Fever and
other infective diseases, but a decrease in all the others.
From all infective diseases the death-rate was 2.18 per 1,000.
2.41 in Clapham, 1.92 in Putney, 1.60 in Streatham, 2.60 in Tooting,
and 2.56 in Wandsworth, compared with 374 in 1911, and 331
the decennial average.
The rate from the principal infective diseases, viz.:—Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever, and Diarrhoea, was .73 per 1,000 (.76 in Clapham, .52 in
Putney, .39 in Streatham, .28 in Tooting, and .92 in Wandsworth),
compared with 2.26 in 1911, and .78 in 1910.
The low rate from these diseases was due to the decrease in
the number of deaths from Measles and Diarrhœa.
In out-lying Institutions 201 deaths occurred from Infective
diseases (43 belonging to Clapham, 15 to Putney, 40 to Streatham,
28 to Tooting, and 75 to Wandsworth), compared with 316 in 1911.
Of these deaths 100 occurred in Workhouse Infirmaries, one
from Measles, one from Whooping Cough, one from Erysipelas,
49 from Tuberculous diseases, three from Puerperal Fever, 32 from
Diarrhœa, and three from other infective diseases; 71 in General
and Special Hospitals, one from Enteric Fever, one from Measles,
one from Diphtheria, two from Influenza, five from Diarrhoea, 52
from Tuberculous diseases, four from Puerperal Fever, and five
from other infective diseases; 15 in Public Lunatic Asylums,
11 from Tuberculous diseases, one from Enteric Fever, one from
Influenza, one from other Tuberculous disease, and one from
Diarrhœa; and 15 in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, two from Whooping Cough, two from Measles, two from
Scarlet Fever, five from Enteric Fever, one from Diarrhoea, two
from Tuberculous diseases, and one from Puerperal Fever.