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Wandsworth 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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18 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1929.
TABLE XI.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Total CASES of Infectious Diseases occurring in each locality. | Total Cases occurring. | Number admitted into Hospital. | Total Deaths. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Putney. | Balham. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||||
| Small-pox | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 12 | 15 | 15 | – |
| Diphtheria | 123 | 51 | 146 | 88 | 70 | 246 | 724 | 708 | 25 |
| Scarlet Fever | 158 | 75 | 98 | 165 | 125 | 278 | 899 | 792 | 6 |
| Enteric and Para-typhoid Fevers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | 1 | – | 3 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 15 | 9 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 29 | 21 | – |
| Erysipelas | 21 | 12 | 26 | 23 | 22 | 58 | 162 | 49 | 2 |
| Whooping Cough | 453 | 173 | 394 | 455 | 411 | 704 | 2590 | 97 | 62 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal | 52 | 40 | 40 | 36 | 39 | 59 | 266 | – | 45 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Primary | 96 | 43 | 43 | 55 | 67 | 193 | 497 | – | 77 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 6 | 2 | 12 | 11 | |
| Polio-myelitis | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 3 | 6 | 3 | – |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
| Malaria | 1 | – | – | – | – | 5 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 4 | l | – |
| Total | 920 | 405 | 754 | 833 | 755 | 1579 | 5246 | 1725 | 236 |
| Tuberculosis—all forms | 118 | 97 | 104 | 97 | 104 | 170 | 690 | 353 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 13 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 45 | 11 | – |
| Total | 131 | 102 | 112 | 101 | 111 | 178 | 735 | 11 | 353 |
| Grand Total | 1051 | 507 | 866 | 934 | 866 | 1757 | 5981 | 1736 | 589 |
The percentage of children vaccinated to total births was
56.2 in Clapham, 53.5; in Putney, 64.5; in Streatham, etc.,
52.6; and in Wandsworth, 62.1. This percentage is lower than
that recorded last year.
Diphtheria.
724 cases occurred, compared with 568 in 1928. The
number of deaths was 25, compared with 15 in 1928. The
death-rate for 1929 was .07 and the case mortality was 3.4 per
cent.
The rate per 1,000 of population was 2.03:—1.90 in
Clapham; 1.56 in Putney; 2.64 in Balham; 1.45 in Streatham;
1.71 in Tooting; and 2.39 in Wandsworth.
Of the 724 cases, 708 or 97 per cent., were removed to
hospital and no difficulty was experienced in having cases
removed promptly.