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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
Wandsworth 1896
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896
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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The death-rate was therefore 92 above the decennial
average, and, while lower than that of 1895, is higher than
any other year since 1890.
The Outlying Deaths above referred to are shown in the
following Table, and are arranged according to the
respective sub-districts to which they belong, and the
institutions in which they have occurred.
| CAUSES OF DEATH. | Number in Entire District. | Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Tooting | Wandsworth. | Union Infirmary. | General and Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 2 | 1 | 2 | I | 12 | .. | .. | 18 |
| Diphteria | 14 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | ||
| Membranous-Croup | |||||||||
| Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Enteric Fever | 3 | 2 | .. | 3 | |||||
| Continued Fever | |||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Choleia | .. | .. | |||||||
| Erysipelas | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | .. | ||
| Measles | 9 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | ||
| Influenza | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Diarrhœa | 11 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 1 | .. | |||
| Other Zymotic Diseases | |||||||||
| Tubercular | 45 | 18 | 9 | 18 | 25 | 19 | 1 | ||
| Cancer | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 8 | .. | |||
| Rheumatism | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Respiratory Diseases | 57 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 29 | 27 | 26 | 4 | |
| Circulatory Diseases | 72 | 22 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 49 | 21 | 2 | |
| Nervous Diseases | 11 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| Other Diseases | 82 | 19 | 14 | 45 | 13 | 91 | 88 | 92 | 2 |
| Violence | 24 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 20 | .. |
| Age | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Total | 471 | 115 | 36 | 93 | 22 | 205 | 229 | 200 | 42 |
| Corresponding Totals in preceding year | 445 | 117 | 51 | 73 | 13 | 191 | 237 | 177 | 31 |
They numbered altogether 471, and of these 229 took
place in the Union Infirmary, 200 in the general and special