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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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80
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The deaths resulting from the principal epidemic
diseases, occurring within the sub-district, with the
death-rates therefrom, as well as the death-rates from
"all diseases" during the past eleven years are here set
out.

Table: TABLE IV.Zymotic Mortality in the Sub-District of Streatham.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in the Sub-District of Streatham.

18861887188818891890189118921893189418951886
Small Pox......................
Measles1121..5123621213526
Scarlet Fever..451..122232
Diphtheria6730611751096
Enteric Fever321142334103
Typhus Fever..1..................
Whooping Cough2662293419181517135
Epidemic Diarrhœa201613815101534122721
Other Zymotic Diseases173213555711
Influenza..........213516103612
Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases676474327995106827592106
Zymotic Death-rate2.11.61.70.81.81.71.10.60.91.71.9
Death-rate from all Diseases15.011.611.410.211.511.612.412.410.011.311.0

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There were 106 deaths in this class, being slightly
higher in number than that of the past few years, and
due to mortality from measles and whooping cough.
The deaths from diseases of the zymotic class yield
a percentage of 17.1 upon the deaths from all causes, or
1.9 per 1,000 of the population.