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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 105
This disease was much less prevalent in London, and in this
Borough in the year 1913 than in the two previous years. In the
sub-district of Streatham and Clapham it was more prevalent than
in the other sub-districts.
The number of cases notified from schools was 496, compared
with 1,014 in 1912 565 in 1911, and 919 in 1910, 133 of these
being from schools in the sub-district of Clapham, the schools
chiefly affected in that sub-district being Bonneville Road and St.
Andrew's Street, and Streatham, where the schools chiefly affected
were Mitcham Lane and Smallwood Road.
There were also 96 cases notified from schools in Putney,
the schools chiefly affected having been Hotham Road and All
Saints'.
In Wandsworth the schools chiefly affected were Swaffield Road
and Waldron Road ; and in Tooting, Sellincourt Road.
The greatest mortality from Whooping Cough occurs among
children under five years of age. Of the 23 deaths that occurred
from this disease, 22 or 96 per cent, were deaths of children under
five years.
31 cases, four from Clapham, six from Putney, one from
Streatham, 11 from Tooting, and nine from Wandsworth, were
removed to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. No
deaths occurred among these cases.
The pamphlet, published in the Report for 1910, was left at
every house where a case of Whooping Cough had been notified
from school, and also in all other known cases.
During the year 503 visits were made by the Sanitary Inspectors
in cases of Whooping Cough, 143 in Clapham, 90 in Putney, 113
in Streatham, 47 in Tooting, and no in Wandsworth.