Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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.
1887 | 1888 | 1839 | 1890 ___ | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | |
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 8 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 6 | |
Diphtheria | 11 | 23 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 31 | 39 | 19 | 12 |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Measles | 25 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 27 | 17 | 18 | 35 |
Whooping Cough | 28 | 28 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 26 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 42 |
Influenza.. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 22 | 31 | 20 | 12 | 37 | 12 |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 24 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 25 | 14 | 41 | 32 |
Hydrophobia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 6 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
Total deaths from Zymotic Disease | 107 | 104 | 75 | 76 | 99 | 134 | 155 | 111 | 134 | 148 |
Zymotic Death-rate | 2.6 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.76 | 2.26 | 2.99 | 3.4 | 2.39 | 2.83 | 3.14 |
Death-rate from all Diseases | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.6 | 13.88 | 13.63 | 13.66 | 13.19 | 10.8 | 13.33 | 13.07 |