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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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95
Parish of Tooting.
Natural Causes .. Cerebral-Haemorrhage 1
Violence:—
Accidental Compression of brain due to
a fall from bed 1
Total 2
Zymotic
Mortality.
The following is a comparative table of
zymotic mortality during the last eight years:

Table: TABLE V.Zymotic Mortality.

TABLE V.

Zymotic Mortality.

18891890189118921893189418951896
Small Pox................
Measles61..7..9211*
Scarlet Fever1....11852*60*94*
Diphtheria............118*176*
Typhus Fever................
Enteric Fever..1........1..
Whooping Cough3210..5316*
Epidemic; Diarrhoea13..41165
Other Zymotic Diseases, in-including Influenza1241465*23
Total Deaths from Zymotic Class129141331131189‡295*
Zymotic Death-rate2.41.62.02.45.05.l†2.5†2.8†
Death-rate from all Causes13.1618.616.024.821.118.l†20.5†14.2†

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* Includes deaths of Non-Parishioners in Metropolitan Asylums Board
Hospital (Fountain). See Table III.
† Corrected Statistics.
Prevalence of Infectious
Disease.
The following Table "B" classifies the
cases of infectious disease notified and removed
to Isolation Hospitals during the year.