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Wandsworth 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE VIII.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total CASES of Infective Diseases occurring in each locality. | Total Cases occurring. | Number admitted into Hospital. | Total Deaths. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||||
| Small-pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 117 | 24 | 101 | 59 | 49 | 129 | 479 | 475 | 15 |
| Scarlet Fever | 85 | 40 | 76 | 101 | 87 | 195 | 584 | 511 | 2 |
| Measles | 795 | 285 | 429 | 598 | 549 | 938 | 3594 | 442 | 13 |
| Whooping Cough | 39 | 13 | 120 | 64 | 150 | 122 | 508 | 83 | 3 |
| Enteric and Para-typhoid Fevers | 3 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 11 | 9 | 1 |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 24 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 127 | 12 | 179 | 144 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 21 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 17 | 47 | 123 | 52 | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 15 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 51 | 36 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 32 | 14 | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 2 | — | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 5 |
| Polio-myelitis | 5 | — | — | 1 | — | 3 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 37 | — | 8 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Primary | 63 | 9 | 36 | 27 | 45 | 104 | 284 | — | 46 |
| Tuberculosis—all forms | 138 | 73 | 79 | 100 | 98 | 133 | 621 | — | 229 |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| Total | 1325 | 480 | 878 | 1002 | 1130 | 1725 | 6540 | 1796 | 329 |
22 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1938.