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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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16 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1930.
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 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | |
| Diphtheria | 231 | 57 | 110 | 136 | 133 | 199 | 866 | 840 | 30 |
| Scarlet Fever | 204 | 101 | 127 | 224 | 99 | 226 | 981 | 831 | 6 |
| Enteric and Para-typhoid Fevers | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 27 | 19 | 4 | |
| Puerperal Fever | — | 2 | 3 | — | 4 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 4 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 6 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 28 | 25 | 6 |
| Erysipelas | 25 | 6 | 30 | 29 | 11 | 49 | 150 | 32 | 12 |
| Whooping Cough | 121 | 119 | 66 | 140 | 39 | 324 | 809 | 8 | 6 |
| Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal | 13 | 1 | — | 3 | 8 | 29 | - | 9 | |
| Pneumonia—Acute Primary | 89 | 46 | 61 | 53 | 35 | 184 | 468 | - | 57 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | — | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Polio-myelitis | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 2 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | — | 2 | — | — | - | - | 2 | — | |
| Total | 693 | 348 | 405 | 599 | 339 | 1007 | 3391 | 1778 | 137 |
| Tuberculosis—all forms | 100 | 66 | 96 | .80 | 93 | 203 | 638 | 376 | 308 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 6 | 2 |
| Total | 109 | 68 | 101 | 88 | 94 | 209 | 669 | 382 | 310 |
| Grand Total | 802 | 416 | 506 | 687 | 433 * | 1216 | 4060 | 2160 | 447 |