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52 Report of the Medical Officer of Health
Scarlet Fever.
833 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified during the year,
compared with 869 in 1911, 687 in 1910, and 987 in 1909.
135 of these were in Clapham, 41 in Putney, 228 in Streatham,
207 in Tooting, and 222 in Wandsworth.
725 or 87 per cent. of these cases were removed to hospital
where 10 died, and 108 or 13 per cent. were treated at home with
one death.
The total number of deaths was 11, of which one was in
Clapham, six in Streatham, one in Tooting, and three in Wandsworth,
The death-rate per 1,000 population was .03, compared with
.03 in 1911.
The percentage of cases removed to hospital, viz.:—87, is
higher than in 1911, when it was 83.5 per cent.
The case mortality was 1.32 per cent., compared with 1.15 in
1911, 1.77 in 1910, 1.42 in 1909, and 1.7 in 1908, and is thus slightly
above the rate for 1911.
The mortality among cases removed to hospital was 13 per
cent., compared with 1.24 in 1911, and among those treated at
home .92 per cent., compared with .69 in 1911. The mortality
among the home-treated cases was thus lower than among those
cases treated in hospital.
The following Table shows the rate of notified cases per 1,000
persons living for each sub-district and for the whole Borough for
the year, and the three previous years, as well as the corresponding
rates for the whole of London.