Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895
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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | |
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Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | .. | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
Diphtheria | 4 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 15 |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. |
Measles | 3 | 11 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 32 | 20 | 26 | 17 |
Whooping Cough | 25 | 34 | 25 | 28 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 26 | 16 | 12 |
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 22 | 27 | 20 | 11 |
Diarrhœa and Dysentery | 16 | 25 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 23 | 11 |
Hydrophobia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | .. | .. |
Total deaths from Zymotic Disease | 61 | 84 | 100 | 84 | 64 | 67 | 96 | 108 | 114 | 73 |
Zymotic Death-rate | 1.49 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.53 | 2.19 | 2.41 | 2.5 | 1.57 |
Death-rate from all Diseases | 12.4 | 12.9 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.6 | 13.88 | 13.63 | 13.66 | 13.19 | 10.8 |