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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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District.
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Ages at Death. Of the total deaths, 27.5 per cent, were of
infants under 1 year of age, and 22.1 of persons above the
age of 65 years.
This rate was as follows :—
| Whole District | 140 per 1000 births. |
| Clapham | 138 „ „ |
| Putney | 151 ,, „ |
| Streatham | 137 ,, „ |
| Tooting | 115 ,, „ |
| Wandsworth | 143 „ „ |
| Registration London | 161 ,, „ |
The rate last year was 127 per 1000.