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Southwark 1918
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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SMALL-POX.
No case of this disease was notified during the year 1918.
No death from Small-Pox has occurred in the borough within the
last fourteen years.
SCARLET FEYER.
During the year under consideration 653 cases were notified with
14 deaths. The notifications and deaths were the highest recorded since
1914. The cases were evenly distributed throughout the borough.
Shewing the number of Patients who died in their own homes and the number who died away from
home in Hospitals or other Institutions.
| 0- | 1- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | 85- | All Ages. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Total | ||||||||||||||
| Number of patients who died at home | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 22 | 36 | 38 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 92 | 69 | 161 |
| Number of patients who died in hospitals, &c. | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 12 | 34 | 40 | 50 | 30 | 22 | 2 | — | 145 | 81 | 226 |
| 3 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 33 | 26 | 56 | 76 | 88 | 46 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 237 | 150 | 387 | |
The Wards most affected were St. Peter, St. John and All Saints
Wards.
Number of deaths from Scarlet Fever during the last ten years :—
In Southwark.
In London.
In Southwark.
In London.
1909
14
383
1914
22
316
1910
9
214
1915
12
332
1911
6
172
1916
5
146
1912
6
159
1917
7
85
1913
11
188
1918
14
118
Of the 653 cases notified in the present year, as many as 625 were
removed to hospital, i.e., 95.8 per cent., as against 95.3 per cent, for
last year.
The deaths in the 625 cases sent to hospital numbered 11, a mortality
of 1.7 per cent.
The deaths in the 28 cases treated at home numbered 3, a mortality
of 10.7.
The annual rate of mortality was 0.08.