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Wandsworth 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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34 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1930.
95 cases requiring special home nursing were referred to the
District Nursing Associations in the Borough, compared
with 55 in 1928, and the nurses made 1,003 visits to these cases
compared with 436 in 1928.
The death-rate per 1,000 of the population was .13, compared
with .10 in 1928, and .14 in 1926.
905 premises were disinfected at the request of the occupiers.
Table XVIII. shows the number of cases of infective diseases
which occurred in the individual elementary schools during the
year.
TABLE XVIII.
| School. | Diseases. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Measles. | German Measles. | Chickcn-pox. | Whooping Cough. | Mumps. | Ringworm. | Other Diseases | Totals. | |
| Clapham. | ||||||||||
| Aristotle Road | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 17 |
| Bonneville Road | 10 | 10 | 77 | - | 49 | 21 | 79 | 2 | 23 | 271 |
| Cavendish Road | 14 | 23 | 40 | - | 5 | — | 60 | — | 1 | 143 |
| Christchurch | 4 | 2 | 30 | - | 4 | — | 10 | — | — | 50 |
| Clapham Parochial, Macaulay Rd. | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | |
| Clapham Parochial, Old Town | 4 | 17 | 29 | - | 1 | — | 16 | — | 10 | 77 |
| Haselrigge Road | 25 | 16 | 51 | 1 | 32 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 141 |
| Henry Thornton, South Side | -- | - | 2 | - | - | - | 7 | - | 1 | 10 |
| Larkhall Lane | 9 | 1 | 54 | - | 10 | — | 41 | 3 | 14 | 132 |
| New Park Road | 3 | 68 | 1 | 65 | 21 | 11 | — | 9 | 182 | |
| New Road | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 1 | — | 2 | 12 | |
| St. Andrew's Street | 11 | 10 | - | 2 | — | — | — | 4 | 29 | |
| St. Mary's, Crescent Lane | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | ||
| St. Mary's, St. Alphonsus Road | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | |
| Stonhouse Street | 11 | 7 | 79 | 2 | 36 | - | 40 | — | 2 | 177 |
| Telferscot Road | 4 | 37 | 2 | 55 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 143 | |
| Putney. | ||||||||||
| All Saints' | - | 29 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 41 | ||
| Hotham Road | 17 | 89 | 1 | 71 | 17 | 1 | - | 21 | 219 | |
| Huntingfield Road | 29 | 9 | 67 | - | 11 | 34 | 1 | — | - | 151 |
| Parochial, Roehampton | 3 | - | 14 | 1 | 15 | 2 | — | — | — | 35 |
| Roehampton, National | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| St. Agnes, R.C. | — | 10 | 13 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 25 |
| St. Mary's | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
| Upper Grade | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 7 | |
| Carried forward | 158 | 135 | 695 | 8 | 374 | 128 | 289 | 9 | 96 | 1,892 |