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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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Sub-district of Putney and Roehampton.
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Table: TABLE IV.Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Roehampton Sub-district.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Roehampton Sub-district.

Zymotic Mortality.1887188818891890189118921893189418951896
Influenza..........6106174
Puerperal Fever....21..2311..
Small Pox....................
Measles2..210....23121
Scarlet Fever1..1..1..11....
Enteric Fever..211112324
Diphtheria12........14322
Whooping Cough2668817124..17
Diarrhoea and Dysentery..4....41066106
Other Zymotic Diseases12..17....1....
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases7161221213650283354
Zymotic Deathrate0.44100.731.1M1.92.61.41.62.6
Death-rate for all Diseases12.511.711.112.411.913.513.69.913.112.2

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In Table IV. the deaths arising from Zymotic
Diseases are tabulated and compared with those of the
preceding nine years. It will be seen that they are
largely in excess of those of previous years Of the
total number of 54 deaths, 38 were due to Measles and
Whooping Cough. All other Zymotic Diseases put together
only caused 16 deaths. The total Zymotic
mortality was 2.6 per 1,000, the largest Zymotic
death-rate during the last ten years with the exception
of 1893. The decennial average was 1.4. If we add
the three deaths from Zymotic Diseases which occurred