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Wandsworth 1921

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

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60
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The number of eases of certain infectious diseases notified
for the year and for the previous 10 years is shown on the following
Table, as also the number above or below the corrected
average.

Table: TABLE XXXVII.

TABLE XXXVII.

1911.1912.1913.1914.1915.19l6.1917.1918.1919.I920.1921.1920.
No. above decennial average.No. below decennial average.
Scarlet Fever8698339711417130969056656389314631978954...
Diphtheria51043143055272353143548752511041009377...
Enteric Fever6373524850464738182432...17
Puerperal Fever2427323011201416283611...14
Erysipelas20220720423419515710395143173121...62
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis53934728262113159...9
Polio-Myelitis551331075311...73...
Ophthalmia Neonatorum343537514432293554605410...
Pulmonary Tuberculosis514855783706646590622777788634490...249
Other Forms of Tuberculosis......328199234216193218163156147...81

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Compared with 1920 there has been an increase in the number
of cases of scarlet fever, enteric fever, and polio-myelitis, and
a decrease of pulmonary tuberculosis, other forms of tuberculosis,
diphtheria, puerperal fever, erysipelas, cerebro-spinal meningitis,
and ophthalmia neonatorum.
Compared with the corrected decennial average there has
been an increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria,
and ophthalmia neonatorum, and a decrease of enteric
fever, erysipelas, cerebro-spinal meningitis, pulmonary tuberculosis,
and other forms of tuberculosis.