Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Infective Diseases.
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 | 132 | 59 | 83 | 46 | 59 | 330 | 709 | 692 | 23 |
Scarlet Fever | 192 | 78 | 92 | 114 | 120 | 220 | 816 | 728 | 5 |
Enteric and Para-typhoid Fever | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 32 | 22 | 5 |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | 3 o | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 14 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 42 | 29 | - |
Erysipelas | 16 | 10 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 53 | 122 | 41 | 4 |
Whooping Cough | 247 | 225 | 317 | 300 | 219 | 521 | 1829 | 49 | 28 |
Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal | 39 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 17 | 38 | 138 | - | 25 |
Pneumonia—Acute Primary | 85 | 40 | 64 | 48 | 64 | 242 | 543 | - | 85 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | - | 1 | l | 2 | - | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
Polio-myelitis | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | - |
Encephalitis Lethargica | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 |
Malaria | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | - |
Dysentery | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Total | 734 | 437 | 617 | 554 | 504 | 1434 | 4280 | 1593 | 190 |
Tuberculosis—all forms | 119 | 85 | 77 | 108 | 95 | 182 | 666 | - | 339 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | - | 5 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 37 | 16 | - |
Total | 128 | 85 | 82 | 114 | 105 | 189 | 703 | 16 | 339 |
Grand Total | 862 | 522 | 699 | 668 | 609 | 1623 | 4983 | 1609 | 529 |