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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 27
The death-rate was .09 per 1,000 (in Clapham .06, in Putney
.13, in Streatham .07, in Tooting .14, and in Wandsworth .10),
compared with .33 in 1921, .18 in 1920, .17 in 1919, and .32 in
1918.
Of the total number of deaths from diarrhoea registered, 19, or
59 per cent., were of infants under one year.
The number of deaths from diarrhoea, zymotic enteritis, and
enteritis under one year represents 9.4 per cent, of the total
mortality at that age.
Dysentery.
One death occurred during the year. Three cases were notified
(one in Clapham and two in Putney).
All the cases were males, and in two the disease was contracted
during Army service in the following war areas: one in France
and one in Salonica. The third case, a child of years, is the
son of a man who had been treated for dysentery in a military
hospital and discharged as cured. He is stated to still pass blood
and slime occasionally.
Trench Fever.
No case was notified during the year.
Measles and German Measles.
Seventy-two deaths occurred (16 in Clapham, five in Putney,
16 in Streatham, nine in Tooting, and 26 in Wandsworth).
The death-rate per 1,000 of population was .21, compared with
.012 in 1921.
The notification of these diseases was discontinued at the end
of 1919, but 50 cases were notified by doctors during the year,
although the greatest number was reported by the Divisional
Officers of the Education Department, or by the teachers of the
elementary schools.