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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 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XI.
| 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 | 161 | 96 | 87 | 83 | 101 | 244 | 769 | 749 | 25 |
| Scarlet Fever | 131 | 64 | 83 | 89 | 95 | 171 | 633 | 571 | 4 |
| Enteric and Paratyphoid Fever | 4 | - | 8 | 6 | - | 3 | 21 | 18 | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 5 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | - |
| Erysipelas | 24 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 37 | 109 | 44 | 8 |
| Whooping Cough | 288 | 74 | 197 | 99 | 190 | 387 | 1235 | 33 | 18 |
| Pneumonia-Acute Influenzal | 18 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 49 | - | 22 |
| Pneumonia-Acute Primary | 99 | 14 | 47 | 37 | 46 | 185 | 428 | - | 62 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Polio-myelitis | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 2 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 7 |
| Malaria | - | - | 2 | - | - | 4 | 6 | - | - |
| Dysentery | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 |
| Trench Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Total | 736 | 274 | 447 | 334 | 466 | 1059 | 3316 | 1461 | 155 |
| Tuberculosis-all forms | 108 | 101 | 110 | 88 | 101 | 198 | 706 | - | 331 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 37 | 15 | 1 |
| Total | 114 | 1C2 | 118 | 100 | 103 | 206 | 743 | 15 | 332 |
| Grand Total | 850 | 376 | 565 | 434 | 569 | 1265 | 4059 | 1476 | 487 |
Infective Diseases. 15