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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.
measles if cared for is not a very fatal disease as a rule,
but, if neglected, may become exceedingly so.
The following are the death-rates per 1,000 of population from zymotic diseases, inclusive of deaths in outlying institutions for the years 1894, 1895, and 1896.
| Death-rate per 1000. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | |
| .452 | |||
Enteric fever is the only zymotic that shows a
decrease, although scarlet fever and diphtheria only
show a slight increase compared with 1895.
Diarrhœa.
This disease also showed a high mortality
during the year, 44 deaths having been registered as
occurring from it. 9 deaths also occurred in outside
institutions. This was 4.73 above the corrected decennial
average. The rate per 1,000 was thus .9; while in
London the rate was .72, and in England and Wales .55.
41 of these deaths occurred in children under one year.
Influenza.
Only 7 deaths were registered from this, one
of these being in an outside institution; this is the
smallest number of deaths since the disease appeared in
1891. These numbers were as follows: in 1892, 44; in
1893, 14; in 1894, 13; and in 1895, 39.