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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 61
The total number of cases notified was 431 (78 in Clapham,
82 in Putney, 95 in Streatham, 48 in Tooting, and 128 in Wandsworth),
compared with 510 in 1911, 284 in 1910, and 380 in 1909.
This number was 144 under the corrected, and 67 under the uncorrected
decennial average.
In all the sub-districts (with the exception of Putney) there has
been a decrease compared with 1911, in Clapham of 22, in Streatham
of 16, in Tooting of 58, and in Wandsworth of 21; while in Putney
the increase was 48.
The greatest number of cases occurred in Wandsworth, and the
smallest in Tooting.
The number of cases notified per 1,000 of population was 1.37,
compared with 1.65 in 1911, .95 in 1910, and 1.35 in 1909; and in
London 1.57 compared with 1.7, 1.13, and 1.38.
335 or 77.7 per cent. of the cases were removed to hospital
where 16 died, and 96 or 22.3 per cent. were treated at home with
two deaths.
The case mortality was 4.1 per cent., compared with 6.6 in 1911,
5.6 in 1910, and 7.6 in 1909.
The case mortality for the whole of London for the year
1912 was 7.4 per cent., compared with 8.3 in 1911, 7.9 in 1910 and
9.1 in 1909.
The case mortality among cases treated in hospital was 4.7
per cent., and among those treated at home two 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.