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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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Table: The following two tables, A and B, are inserted at the request of the medical officer of the Local Government Board to ensure a uniform method of classification over the entire Kingdom. The same information is given under different forms in the various other tables:—TABLE(A)TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Putney; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

The following two tables, A and B, are inserted at the request of the medical officer of the Local Government Board to ensure a uniform method of classification over the entire Kingdom. The same information is given under different forms in the various other tables:—

TABLE(A)

TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Putney; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)MORTALITY FROM ALL CASES, AT SUBJOINED AGES.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.12345678910111213141516171819202122
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(c)(f)(g)(h)
PUTNEY25271381086659Under 5.................................18166......1212239105
5 upwds......2......4...............31.........152123672147
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Totals25271381086659Under 5.................................18166......1212239105
5 upwds......2........................31.........152123672147
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto.363331188Under 5......3...................................................36
5 upwds................................................34721430
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto.8.........17...Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds...................................................1...528