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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Compared with 1912 there has been an increase in the number
of deaths from Puerperal Fever, Influenza, Erysipelas, Measles, and
Diarrhœa, and a decrease in the number of deaths from Whooping
Cough, Enteric Fever, Tuberculous diseases and other infective
diseases, while the number of deaths from Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria is the same.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has been
an increase in the number of deaths from Puerperal Fever, Measles
and other infective diseases, but a decrease in all the others.
From all infective diseases the death-rate was 2.43 per 1,000,
(2.18 in Clapham, 2.10 in Putney, 1.83 in Streatham, 3.15 in Tooting,
and 3.04 in Wandsworth), compared with 2.18 in 1912, and 3.34
the decennial average.
The rate from the principal infective diseases, viz. :—Smallpox
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever, and Diarrhœa, was 1.04 per 1,000,(.76 in Clapham, .95 in
Putney, .68 in Streatham, 1.90 in Tooting, and 1.27 in Wandsworth),
compared with 173 in 1912, 2.26 in 1911, and .78 in 1910.
The rate from these diseases was higher than in 1912 owing
to the increase in the number of deaths from Measles and Diarrhœa.
In out-lying Institutions 281 deaths occurred from infective
diseases, (45 belonging to Clapham, 23 to Putney, 59 to Streatham,
43 to Tooting, and 111 to Wandsworth), compared with 201 in 1912.
Of these deaths 144 occurred in Workhouse Infirmaries, 88 in
General and Special Hospitals, 16 in Public Lunatic Asylums, and
33 in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
The causes of death in these Institutions is shown in Table XV.
In Institutions in the Borough 183 deaths from infective
diseases occurred of persons not belonging thereto, compared with
186 in 1912.