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

  • Wandsworth (London, England)
Date:
[1912]
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    93 Report of the Medical Officer of Health. TABLE L. Month. Clapham. Putney. Streatham. Tooting. Wands worth. Whole Borough. January 35 7 23 30 43 138 February 45 6 91 83 158 383 March 112 20 347 235 660 1,374 April 45 8 180 50 190 473 May 33 8 49 13 65 168 June 21 6 16 2 17 62 July 6 4 2 3 6 21 August ... ... 1 ... 2 3 September 1 ... 1 ... 1 3 October ... ... ... ... 3 3 November 1 ... 1 1 2 5 December 4 ... ... 1 ... 5 Total 303 59 711 418 1,147 2,638 Whooping Cough. 66 deaths were registered during the year, 33 of males and 33 of females, a decrease of two compared with 1910, and of 12 compared with the decenrial average. 11 of the deaths occurred in Clapham, six in Putney, 10 in Streatham, five in Tooting, and 34 in Wandsworth. 29 of the deaths were of infants under one year, 26 of children from one to two years, nine from two to five years, and two from five to fifteen years. The death-rate was .21 per 1,000, compared with .22 in 1910, .23 in 1909, and .23 for the whole of London in 1911. This disease was slightly less fatal in London and in this Borough in the year 1911 than in the two previous years. In the sub-district of Wandsworth it was more prevalent than in the other sub-districts The number of cases notified from schools was 565, com pared with 919 in 1910, 538 in 1909, and 612 in 1908, 232 of these being from schools in the sub-district of Wandsworth, the schools chiefly affected in that sub-district being The Wandle and Earls field, and Streatham, where the schools chiefly affected were Mitcham Lane and Hitherfield Road.