London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
| 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1915 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above decennial average. | No. below decennial average. | |||||||||||||
| Small-pox | 1 | .1 | ||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1494 | 1069 | 1330 | 1232 | 987 | 687 | 869 | 833 | 971 | 1417 | 1309 | 69 | ||
| Diphtheria | 348 | 566 | 629 | 581 | 380 | 284 | 510 | 431 | 430 | 552 | 723 | 196 | ||
| Typhus | Fevers. | 1 | .1 | |||||||||||
| Enteric | 96 | 96 | 70 | 60 | 66 | 54 | 58 | 71 | 50 | 48 | 50 | 22 | ||
| *Continued | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | |||||||
| Relapsing | ||||||||||||||
| Puerperal, | 18 | 25 | 25 | 14 | 26 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 32 | 30 | 11 | 15 | ||
| Cholera | ||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 253 | 273 | 213 | 203 | 192 | 182 | 202 | 207 | 204 | 234 | 195 | 46 | ||
| Cerebrospinal Meningitis | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 47 | 43 | |||||
| Polio-Myelitis | 5 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 7 | ||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 34 | 35 | 37 | 51 | 44 | 26 | ||||||||
| "Chicken-pox | 191 | |||||||||||||
| Total | 2211 | 2030 | 2270 | 2095 | 1657 | 1232 | 1712 | 1614 | 1748 | 2338 | 2581 | 464 | ||