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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
Barnes 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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TABLE
Showing Case Mortality from certain diseases at the Isolation Hospital, Mortlake, since 1901.
| Year. | SCARLET FEVER. | DIPHTHERIA. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admissions. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | Admissions. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | |
| 1902 | 56 | 1 | 1.7 | 46 | 6 | 13.0 |
| 1903 | 21 | 1 | 4.7 | 45 | 3 | 6.5 |
| 1904 | 21 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 1905 | 24 | 1 | 4.1 | 14 | 2 | 14.2 |
| 1906 | 25 | 1 | 4.0 | 105 | 11 | 10.4 |
| 1907 | 50 | 1 | 2.0 | 17 | 2 | 11.7 |
| 1908 | 26 | 0 | 0.0 | 19 | 1 | 5.2 |
| Totals. | 223 | 5 | 2.2 | 265 | 25 | 9.41 |
Altogether 50 cases were admitted during 1908. They were
made up as follows:—
Diphtheria 19 Rotheln 1
Scarlet Fever 25 Cerebro Spinal Meningitis 1
Scarlet Fever & Whooping Cough 1 Tuberculous Meningitis 1
Measles 1 Tonsillitis 1
The case of Diphtheria which proved fatal was admitted in
a moribund condition.