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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

Battersea 1898

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea...

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Table: TABLE I.Deaths of Battersea Parishioners occurring outside the Districts in Public Institutions and Elsewhere within the Metropolis.

TABLE I.

Deaths of Battersea Parishioners occurring outside the Districts in Public Institutions and Elsewhere within the Metropolis.

Deaths of Parishioners in outlying Public Institutions. DISEASE.Totals.Sex.Age.Institutions.Elsewhere.
Males.Females.Under 1 year.1 to 5 years.All under 5.5 to 15 years.15 to 25 years.25 to 65 years.65 and upwards.Union WorkhousesGeneral and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.County and other Lunatic Asylums.
I.—ZYMOTICS.Small Pox.............................................
Scarlatina2211111151651............22......
Diphtheria7535404444826...1......273......
Membranous Croup.............................................
Typhus Fever.............................................
Enteric „853............17......17......
Continued Fever.............................................
Relapsing „...........................................
Puerperal ,,.............................................
Cholera.............................................
Erysipelas211.............2......1...1...
Measles541145............131......
Whooping Cough...........................................
Diarrhoea7525161............7.... ....
Other Zymotics11..................1......1.........
Total Zymotics120625811647532211151031
Rheumatic Fever642.........2i3......6.........
Ague.............................................
Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases41172454922271...30...101
Respiratory2014621113...16...1172......
Circulatory281810...115318121736
Nervous46281826818263218...251
Cancer281315...11......234124...3...
Violence171341452262...8......9
All Other Diseases82374518624762619664291
Totals3882061823997136512514630131991075118