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Battersea 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Number of Cases of Infectious Disease Notified in Battersea. 1919.
Wards.
No. 1
Nine Elms.
No. 2
Park.
No. 3
Latchmere.
No. 4
Shaftesbury.
No. 5
Church.
No. 6
Winstanley.
No. 7
St. John.
No. 8
Bolingbroke.
No. 9
Broomwood.
Totals.
Small-pox
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
3
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup
52
35
31
23
17
23
10
24
14
229
Erysipelas
21
6
9
7
23
13
3
9
1
92
Scarlet Fever
107
94
29
53
49
48
20
41
43
484
Typhoid or Enteric Fever
6
...
• • •
...
...
3
1
1
...
11
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
33
9
9
5
7
14
...
1
...
78
Puerperal Fever
2
2
3
...
2
...
2
...
...
11
Polio-myelitis
1
1
...
...
...
...
4
...
...
6
Potio-encephalitis
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Encephalitis Lethargica
...
...
• • •
...
...
...
1
1
1
3
Cerebro-spinal Fever
1
1
1
3
2
...
...
9
Malaria
7
11
6
15
10
18
4
15
9
95
Dysentery
2
...
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
4
Trench Fever
...
...
...
2
...
...
1
...
...
3
Acute Primary Pneumonia
26
23
13
7
16
13
6
10
...
119
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
19
18
15
7
20
13
8
12
19
131
Measles
141
49
68
89
98
110
37
91
16
699
German Measles
14
7
16
20
12
2
3
22
4
100
432
256
200
229
257
258
105
227
113
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