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If the portion of Wimbledon in the rectangle mentioned in the
report having a population of 6,000, or one-eighth of the whole of
the town, is compared with the three East London Boroughs having
the highest rate for the quarter under review, viz:— Shoreditch, Poplar
and Stepney, with a combined population of 593,500, or about oneeighth
of the population of the County of London, the result is a rate
of 4.8 as against 30.2 in favour of the said London Boroughs; or taking
the whole of London and the whole of Wimbledon, 2.6, as against, 6'3.
The chart prepared from the Registrar General's Returns as
regards deaths, the records for the Meteorological Office for the deep
earth temperature (3ft. 2in. at Greenwich) and the readings furnished
by the Borough Surveyor respecting rainfall at the sewage farm,
Durnsford Road, show forcibly that so far as Wimbledon is concerned
Dr. Ballard's theory as to the close relationship between the deep
earth temperature to Diarrhoea Mortality is true.
The first fatal case occurred when 56 degrees Fah. was registered,
the maximum earth temperature and deaths coinciding week by week
and ceasing when the earth temperature had fallen to 56 degrees Fah.
Report on Diarrhoea Mortality in Wimbledon during
the 13 weeks ending September 30th, 1906, being
the Third or Summer Quarter.
During the thirteen weeks ending September 30th, 1906, there
were 79 deaths registered as due to Diarrhœa; commencing with two
each in the first and third weeks, three in the third, and four each in
the fifth and sixth ; the number reached 13 in the seventh week,
declining to five and nine in the eighth and ninth weeks respectively.
Again rising to thirteen, ten and thirteen in the tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth weeks respectively, it suddenly dropped to one in the
thirteenth week.
The Chart shews the deaths week by week, the mean temperature
of the air and the deep earth (3ft. 2in. Greenwich) temperature
respectively, not only during the quarter in question but also through
October, as the deaths from Diarrhœa which occurred in this month
were those of children whose illness, of one or two months duration,
although terminating in October had commenced in August and
September.
In Trinity Ward there were 30 deaths; South Park Ward, 42;
Dundonald Ward, 4; Cottenham Park Ward, 2; St. Mary's Ward, 0;
St. John's Ward, 0. Total 78.