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Wandsworth 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Infective Diseases. 43

TABLE XVIII.— continued.

School.Diseases.
Scarlet Fever.DiphtheriaMeasles.German Measles. 1Chicken-pox.Whooping Cough.Mumps.RingwormOther DiseasesTotals.
"Brought forward247149183157648296241211883678
Wandsworth.
Allfarthing Lane51056119394477188
All Saints'33141512460
Brandlehow Road542513026192
Earlsfield72173131615213151
Elliott Central14218
Eltringham Street9183612211198
Frogmore Special134
Garratt Lane2857102796119
Littleton Street Special112
Magdalen Road5525917364
Merton Road67141461241
Riversdale1278816749213230
St. Ann's2313159547
St. Faith's3110111053
St. Joseph's2161452333
St. Michael's666611632127
Swaffield Road20870136222159
Waldron Road76784411137
Wandle354817341614128
Warple Way1172630359
West Hill791362940291251
Gkand Total356284270162897692457392415729

Diarrhœa.
The number of deaths from Diarrhoea was 40, compared
with 27 in 1927, 36 in 1926, 34 in 1925, and 30 in 1924, and
of these 31, or 77 per cent., were under the age of one year,
compared with 16 in 1927. The number of deaths from
Diarrhoea, Zymotic Enteritis and Enteritis under one year
represents 13 per cent, of the total mortality at that age.