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Wandsworth 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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Table: The number of cases of certain infectious diseases notified during the year and the previous 10 years is shown on the following Table, as also the number of the corrected average.Table XVII.

The number of cases of certain infectious diseases notified during the year and the previous 10 years is shown on the following Table, as also the number of the corrected average.

Table XVII.

1912.1913.1914.1915.1916.1917.1918.1919.1920.1921.10 years' average corrected for increase of population.1922.
Scarlet Fever8339711,4171,3096905665638931,4631,9781,1131,257
Diphtheria4314305527235314354875251,1041,009649838
Enteric Fever735248504647381824324322
Puerperal Fever273230112014162836112217
Erysipelas20720423419515710395143173121170108
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis3934728262113159176
Polio-Myelitis51331075311764
Ophthalmia Neonatorum353751443229355460544442
Pulmonary Tuberculosis855783706646590622777788634490718398
Other Forms of Tuberculosis328199234216193218163156147192145

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Compared with 1921 there has been an increase in the number
of cases of puerperal fever, but a decrease in all the others.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has
been an increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria,
and a decrease in all the others.
Small-pox.
No case of this disease occurred during the year.
Scarlet Fever.
This disease was not so prevalent during the year, compared
with 1921.
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