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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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12
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Zymotic
Diseases.
The following Table shows the deaths from
zymotic diseases that have occurred among the
population of the entire district in each of the last ten
years, including those in outlying institutions.

Table: TABLE VII.

TABLE VII.

1887188818891890189118921893189418951896
Small Pox..1........1..2..
Scarlet Fever223111972951191527
Diphtheria21664220305799743739
Membranous Croup..........10171391
Typhus1..1..............
Enteric Fever12181121101218212617
Continued Fever........2211....
Puerperal Fever26386781374
Cholera..................1
Erysipelas115556161614510
Measles685633887882338227154
Whooping Cough4496431007689775424155
Influenza......2161123644513137
Diarrhoea and Dysentery70644173518312459110119
Other Zymotic Diseases102143183261..
Totals26134.5204348345513511401394564

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The number of deaths was 564, and is seen to be the
largest of the ten years. It may be pointed out here,
however, how large a proportion of the total is made up
of Measles and Whooping cough—no less than 56.5 per
cent.—and also how much the number of deaths from
these two causes exceeds those of other years. That must
also be borne in mind in considering the next table, which
gives the corrected zymotic death-rate for the last nine
years in each sub-district and in the whole district.