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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 1909
[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. | |
| 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 | 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 19 | 1 | 5.2 |
| 1909 | 46 | 0 | 0.0 | 35 | 4 | 11.4 |
| Totals | 263 | 5 | 1.9 | 290 | 29 | 10 |
Altogether 88 cases were admitted during 1909. They were
made up as follows r—
Diphtheria 35 Erysipelas 2
Scarlet Fever 46 Puerperal Fever 1
Typhoid Fever 4
Of the 35 cases of diphtheria 6 were laryngeal. One was
admitted at a late stage and died suddenly; one, aged 7 months,
died of broncho-pneumonia following intubation; and 4 recovered,
2 after intubation, and 2 without operation.