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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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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
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| Diseases. | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1896 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above corrected ave rage. | No. below corrected average. | |||||||||||||||
| Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||
| Measles | 28 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 47 | 10 | 30 | 2 | 37 | 2 | 58 | 29.59 | .. | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 6 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. | 3 | .49 | .. | |||
| Diphtheria | 10 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 8 | .. | 5.1 | |||
| Typhus Enteric | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | .. | 2.5 | |||
| Whooping Cough | 31 | 8 | 40 | 6 | 35 | 18 | 28 | 26 | 17 | 13 | 53 | 24.59 | .. | |||
| Diarrhœa Cholera | 28 | 30 | 32 | 21 | 37 | 25 | 41 | 37 | 24 | 24 | 44 | 4.73 | .. | |||
| Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases | 111 | 67 | 125 | 44 | 134 | 79 | 127 | 94 | 92 | 46 | 170 | 52.4 | .. | |||
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 60 | 34 | 34 | 58 | *11 | .. | 18 | |||
| Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 116 | 71 | 127 | 47 | 145 | 95 | 187 | 128 | 126 | 94 | 181 | 34.6 | .. | |||
| Zymotic Death rate per 1,000 population | 3.58 | 2.14 | 3.73 | 1.35 | 3.2 | 2 | 3.7 | 2.54 | 2.30 | 1.62 | 3.02 | .41 | .. | |||
| Total Deaths from all causes | 722 | 610 | 711 | 494 | 787 | 780 | 838 | 820 | 768 | 798 | 886 | .. | 95 | |||
| Percentage of Deaths from Epidemics to De aths from all causes . | 15.3 | 10.9 | 17.5 | 8.90 | 17.0 | 10.3 | 15.1 | 15.62 | 16.5 | 11.78 | 20.42 | 6.53 | .. | |||
* Inclusive of 6 from Influenza.
The death-rate from all zymotic diseases per 1,000
of population was 3.02; an increase of 1.40 compared
with 1895, and .41 above the corrected decennial
average. Measles and whooping cough alone show a
death-rate of 1.98 per 1,000.