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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: Table b. The following Table (B) records the notifications received under section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, during the year, and the cases removed to isolation hospitals. table table of population, births, and of new cases of infectious sickness, (b) coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1896 in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Slreatham; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Table b. The following Table (B) records the notifications received under section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, during the year, and the cases removed to isolation hospitals. table table of population, births, and of new cases of infectious sickness, (b) coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1896 in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Slreatham; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institution being shown as separate localities.Population at all agesRegistered Births.Aged under or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 189612345678910111234567891011
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.| Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.|Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal.Typhus.Enteric orTyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
STREATHAM42958559071277Under 54815.....................2...2912........................
5 upwds20045......272...1...45...13613......9............3
Under 5
5 upwds
Under 5
5 upwds
Under 5
5 upwds
Under 5
5 upwds
Total42958559071277Under 5...4315.....................2...2912........................
5 upwds...20045......272...1...45...13613......9............3

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