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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.

Table: Number of Notifications received each year since the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act:—

Number of Notifications received each year since the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act:—

1890189118921893189418951896
Small Pox. .4. .291151
Scarlatina3094538871256673659983
Diphtheria112164242398321266286
Membranous Croup48173322213
TyphusFevers.. .1. .. .. .. .. .
Enteric77648610812813898
Continued521161328
Relapsing. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Puerperal910132119610
Cholera. .. .. .. .121
Erysipelas147177274373243221262

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The above two tables give the number of Notifications
received under the Public Health (London) Act distributed
in sub-districts, and the numbers for each year.
Small Pox.
There has been no Small Pox at all during
the year, for the one notification referred to a case which
was not Small Pox as mentioned in the Clapham
Report.
Scarlet Fever.
There were 29 deaths during the year, more
than in either of the preceding years. Scarlet Fever showed
epidemic prevalence in 1896, after a lull of two years.
The cases notified numbered 983, less than in the last
epidemic year 1893, when they numbered 1,256. The
appended chart shows the number notified in each month
of the year, and it shows the maximum prevalence to have
been in October, when 160 cases were notified. There
was a steady rise from June, 62 cases, to October, broken,
however, by the August fall. The number removed to
hospital was 568 or 55.5 per cent of all the cases.
There was again considerable want of hospital accommodation
experienced during the autumn months, especially