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Wandsworth 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health
TABLE XII.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total CASES of Infectious Diseases occurring in each locality. | Total Cases occurring. | Number admitted into Hospital. | Total Deaths. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||||
| Small pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 117 | 57 | 63 | 77 | 119 | 262 | 695 | 676 | 27 |
| Scarlet fever | 114 | 45 | 164 | 73 | 200 | 205 | 801 | 731 | 9 |
| Enteric and paratyphoid fever | 3 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 1 | 5 | 52 | 46 | 5 |
| Puerperal fever | — | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 9 |
| Erysipelas | 19 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 57 | 118 | 27 | 6 |
| Whooping Cough | 300 | 188 | 261 | 271 | 281 | 788 | 2089 | 24 | 37 |
| Pneumonia—Acute influenzal | 11 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 15 | 32 | 84 | — | 19 |
| Pneumonia—Acute primary | 70 | 29 | 34 | 28 | 44 | 152 | 357 | — | 52 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| Polio-myelitis | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 11 |
| Malaria | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Trench Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 639 | 335 | 558 | 516 | 681 | 1511 | 4240 | 1532 | 180 |
| Tuberculosis—all forms | 131 | 70 | 80 | 77 | 71 | 214 | 643 | — | 310 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | 11 | 2 | — | 10 | 29 | 16 | — |
| Total | 134 | 73 | 91 | 79 | 71 | 224 | 672 | 16 | 310 |
| Grand Total | 773 | 408 | 649 | 595 | 752 | 1735 | 4912 | 1548 | 490 |