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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 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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26 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
TABLE XIV.—
| School. | Diseases. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Measles. | German Measles. | Chicken-pox. | Whooping Cough. | Mumps. | Ringworm. | Other Diseases. | Totals. | |
| Brought forward | 237 | 167 | 101 | 23 | 672 | 499 | 600 | 29 | 276 | 2604 |
| Wandsworth. | ||||||||||
| Allfarthing Lane | 10 | 4 | — | 29 | 28 | 33 | 4 | 16 | 124 | |
| All Saints' | 2 | 5 | 7 | |||||||
| Brandlehow Road | 23 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 73 | 11 | 1 | - | 2 | 118 |
| Earlsfield | 6 | 29 | 2 | - | 15 | 9 | 68 | - | 15 | 144 |
| Elliott Central | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | ||
| Eltringham Street | 3 | 56 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 1 | - | 1 | 93 | |
| Garratt Lane | 1 | 5 | - | 1 | 3 | 9 | 40 | - | 59 | |
| Magdalen Road | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 41 | |
| Merton Road | 8 | 5 | - | 48 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 71 | ||
| Riversdale | 16 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 36 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 97 |
| St. Ann's | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 7 | |
| St. Faith's | 1 | 10 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 25 | |
| St. Joseph's | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | ||
| St. Michael's | 14 | - | - | 7 | 14 | 3 | 2 | - | 40 | |
| Swaffield Road | 16 | 10 | 2 | - | 19 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 50 |
| Waldron Road % | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 6 | 19 | 91 |
| Wandle | 2 | 6 | - | - | 53 | 9 | 17 | 2 | - | 89 |
| Warple Way | 1 | 15 | 1 | - | 6 | - | 3 | 26 | ||
| West Hill | 5 | 5 | 46 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 64 | |||
| Grand Total | 444 | 378 | 145 | 35 | 1101 | 776 | 915 | 49 | 375 | 4218 |
Diarrhoea.
The number of deaths from Diarrhœa was 27, compared
with 36 in 1926, 34 in 1925, 30 in 1924, and 61 in .1923, and
of these 16, or 59 per cent., were under the age of one year,
compared with 27 in 1926. The number of deaths from
Diarrhoea, Zymotic Enteritis and Enteritis under one year
represents 11 per cent. of the total mortality at that age.