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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
Merton 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton]
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It is honed that this procedure will help to eliminate, at any rate so far as the Public Elementary Schools are concerned, one factor in the propagation of disease.
| — | January. | February. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | August. | September. | October. | November. | December | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria- | ||||||||||||||
| Over 5 yrs. | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 31 |
| Under 5 yrs. | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | |
| Scarlet Fever Over 5 yrs. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 43 | 62 |
| Under 5 yrs. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | i | 0 | 19 | |
| 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 41 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 8 | Total | 93 | |
SCARLET FEVER.
Sixty-two cases were notified, as against 18 in 1908, and
50 in 1907. The incidence of the disease was 4.4 per thousand
population. There was 1 death, equal to a death-rate of .07.
The increase in the notifications was caused by the
epidemic which prevailed in June and early in July, conveyed
by infection of a particular milk supply. I shall, in the
appropriate section, deal with the difficulties which may be
encountered in the investigations so far as they relate to milk
brought into the district from outside places.
The following is the special report made by me to the
Council, copies of which were sent to the Local Government
Board and the Surrey County Council:—