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Southwark 1918

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 33.ZYMOTIC MORTALITY FOR THE SANITARY AREA, 1918. Showing the localities where the deaths occurred.

TABLE 33.

ZYMOTIC MORTALITY FOR THE SANITARY AREA, 1918. Showing the localities where the deaths occurred.

Locality.Polio-Myelitis.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Diarrhæa.Cerebrospinal Fever.Anthrax.Total.
The Borough...923177......35......208
Southwark temporary Infirmary...4......2......81...15
Colney Hatch Asylum.....................1......1
Met. Asylums Board Hospitals...1011316.........1...59
St. Thomas's Hospital.........2......1.........3
Evelina Hospital.........26......6......15
Leavesden Asylum....... . .............1......1
Guy's Hospital.........31......2......6
Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square.....................1......1
Royal Waterloo Hospital...2........................2
King's College Hospital...1...1.........1......3
Lambeth Infirmary...36...135......12......85
Belgrave Hospital............1......1......2
Banstead Asylum.....................1......1
Lambeth Schools.....................1......1
Westminster Hospital.....................1......1
Children's Hospital, Gt. Ormond Street.....................2......2
Dartford Heath Asylum.....................1......1
Caterham Asylum.....................1......1
Downs Sanatorium.....................1......1
Clay bury Asylum.....................2......2
Han well Asylum.....................1......1
Long Grove Asylum.....................2......2
Croydon Infirmary............1...............1
Total...1451441129...1814...415

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Of the 8 cases notified 7 were removed to hospital, of which
1 died, a mortality of 14.3 per cent.
MEASLES.
This disease has been again very prevalent during 1918. The notifications
numbered 2,442 for the year as against 1,530 for 1917. The
total deaths were 145.
Deaths from Measles during the last ten years:—
1909
127
1914
95
1910
225
1915
131
1911
120
1916
94
1912
139
1917
75
1913
105
1918
145
The annual death-rate per 1,000 living was 0-89.
CEREBRO SPINAL FEVER.
During the year 7 cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever were notified, of
which 4 died.
DIARRHÆA.
The deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis numbered 81. The year
under consideration was again distinctly favourable to infants in regard
to these complaints.