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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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52 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
from diseases of a Zymotic character, out of seventy-five
infectious cases removed to hospital—a mortality of 4
per cent.

Table: TABLE II.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE II.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.Total.SexAgeInstitutions
Males.Females.Under I.From I to 60.6o and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospital.
Diphtheria22....2....11
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever1..1..1......1
Typhus lever..................
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles...................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases..................
Cancer1..1........1..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases532..3214..
Circulatory Diseases725..336l..
Nervous Diseases312..212l..
Other diseases1468..9359..
Violence33....21..2..
3617193231014192

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General
Mortality.
The usual method has again been followed in
Table III. of classifying all deaths registered
within the sub-district, according to sex, age and social
position. It is satisfactory to find that even with our
increased population, absolutely fewer deaths were registered
than during the previous year. Of the total number of
252, 71 were infants under 12 months, which is equal to
28*1 per cent, of the total number. Under five years of
age there were 109 deaths registered, equal to 43*2 per