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Barnes 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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TABLE III.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1909.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases notified in each locality. | Number of Cases removed to Hospital from each locality. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At ages-Years. | 1 Barnes. | 2 M'rtl'ke | 1 Barnes. | 2 M'rtl'ke. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upw'ds. | |||||||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 43 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 2 | 5 | - | 28 | 15 | 25 | 11 | 36 |
| Erysipelas | 10 | - | - | 1 | - | 8 | 1 | 3 | 7 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Scarlet Fever | 56 | - | 9 | 37 | 7 | 3 | - | 20 | 36 | 16 | 32 | 48 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 16 | - | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | - | 15 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Phthisis (1) Poor Law | 14 | - | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 14 | - | - | - |
| (2) Voluntary | 5 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 147 | 1 | 26 | 65 | 20 | 33 | 2 | 73 | 74 | 45 | 46 | 91 |
Isolation Hospital, Mortlake. Total available beds, 36. Number of Diseases that can be concurrently
treated, 4.