Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893
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TABLE XIV. Return of sickness and causes of death among the Parish poor during the year 1893 under the treatment of the District Medical Officers, compiled from the Medical Relief books.
ZYMOTIC OR EPIDMIC DISEASES | Grand Total or Cases and deaths from all Diseases. | |||||||||||||
Battersea.Poor Law Medical Districts. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Whoop ng Cough. | Enteric & other Fevers. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever or Metria. | Diarrhoea, Dysentery, or Cholera. | Influenza. | Other Zymotic Diseases. | Total. | ||
Cases | No. 1 | 1 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 23 | _ | 5 | _ | 44 | 15 | _ | 121 | |
No. 2 | 5 | 16 | 22 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 3 | _ | 81 | 37 | 3 | 200 | ||
No. 3 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 11 | 14 | — | 14 | 2 | 36 | 18 | 6 | 134 | ||
Whole Parish | 11 | 33 | 61 | 29 | 55 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 161 | 70 | 9 | 455 | ||
Deaths | No. 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | 1 | ||
2 | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | 1 | _ | _ | 1 | 1 | _ | 4 | ||
No. 3 | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | 2 | ||
Whole Parish | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | 1 | _ | _ | 2 | 2 | _ | 7 | ||
OTHER DISEASES. | ||||||||||||||
Battebsea. Poor Law Medical Districts. | Diseases of the Tubercular Class. | Of Brain, Nerves, &c. | Of Heart. | Of Respiratory Organs. | Of Digestive Organs. | Of Kidneys. | Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation,&c | Age. | Violence. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |||
Cases | No. 1 | 22 | 35 | 14 | 241 | 61 | 7 | 8 | 244 | 22 | 586 | 1,235 | 1,356 | |
Cases No. 2 | 31 | 48 | 37 | 339 | 62 | 10 | 5 | 193 | 27 | 890 | 1,642 | 1,842 | ||
No. 3 | 411 | 39 | 9 | 339 | 77 | 7 | 3 | 191 | 48 | 957 | 1,710 | 1,844 | ||
Whole Parish | 93 | 122 | 60 | 919 | 200 | 24 | 11 | 628 | 97 | 2433 | 4,587 | 5,042 | ||
Deaths | No. 1 | 1 | 2 | _ | 3 | 1 | 1 | _ | 3 | _ | 2 | 13 | 14 | |
No. 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | _ | _ | 1 | 17 | 21 | ||
No. 3 | _ | 3 | 2 | 4 | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | 11 | 13 | ||
Whole Palish | 2 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | _ | 4 | 41 | 48 |