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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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TABLE
Showing the Case Mortality at the Isolation Hospital, Mortlake, since January 1st, 1901, for certain diseases.
| Year. | SCARLET FEVER. | DIPHTHERIA AND CROUP. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admissions. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | Admissions. | Deaths. | Mortality per cent. | |
| 1901 | 18 | 0 | 0.0 | 56 | 1 | 1.7 |
| 1902 | 56 | 1 | 1.7 | 46 | 6 | 13.0 |
| 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 |
| Totals. | 215 | 5 | 2.3 | 292 | 25 | 8.6 |
In 1907 there were also admitted one case of Puerperal Fever,
which died; one case of Enteric; one of Tonsilitis; and
four other cases of illness sent in as either Scarlet Fever or
Diphtheria.