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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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The next table gives particulars of these
deaths. They were 115 in number, and are
classified according to causes of death and
age groups, and the character of institution in which
they occurred. 54 took place in the Union Infirmary, 53
in the general and special hospitals, and 8 in those of the
Metropolitan Asylums' Board. There were 117 of these
deaths in 1895:—

Table: TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.Total.SexAgeInstitutions
Males.Females. %Under 1.1 to 65.65 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever211....,......2
Diphtheria31212......3
Enteric Fever22....2......2
Erysipelas..................
Measles..................
Whooping Cough1..11....1....
Influenza................
Diarrhoea..................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases18135..17..612..
Cancer954..9..27..
Rheumatism11....1....1..
Respiratory Diseases18117198144..
Circulatory Diseases22913..157147..
Nervous Diseases871..6253..
Other Diseases19910..96712..
Violence963..7227..
Old Age3..3....33....
Totals11565507792954538