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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

Wimbledon 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Six others, suffering from Marasmus, died in hospital.
Of the 37
7, or 19 per cent., took no food.
15, or 40.5 per cent., were breast fed.
16, or 43.2 per cent., were artificially fed.
Ten of the mothers, or 27 per cent., went out to work.
Of the 11 babies whose deaths were due to diarrhoea and
enteritis, 9, or 81.8 per cent., were artificially fed. Of the
6 who died in hospital, all, or 100 per cent., were artificially
fed from birth.

Table: Isolation Hospital.—The following Table, furnished by the Hospital Medical Attendant, Dr. Clapham, gives the number of patients treated in the Hospital for each disease during the year.

Isolation Hospital.—The following Table, furnished by the Hospital Medical Attendant, Dr. Clapham, gives the number of patients treated in the Hospital for each disease during the year.

Cases Admitted in 1913.Over 5 years.Under 5 years.Total.Deaths.Remarks.
Over 5 years.Under 5 years.Total.
Scarlet Fever9115106---Daily average number of cases 28.
Diphtheria9115106213
Enteric Fever5-51-1
Pneumonic Measles1—1—--
Tonsilitis. Staff.3—3———
Asthma. Staff.1-1---
Erythema Nodosum1—1———
19330223314Average number of days in Hospital 40.
Carried over from 1912
Scarlet Fever12719---
Diphtheria14-14—11
Total number of cases treated during 191321937256325