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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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Parish of Wandsworth.
Parish of Wandsworth
| Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accidental | Suffocation in bed with with parents | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Asphyxia by drowning | 3 | — | 3 | |
| Blood Poisoning | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Fracture of Skull | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Suffocation | — | 1 | 1 | |
| Gastritis from Eating Shellfish | — | 1 | 1 | |
| Burns | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Poisoning by Ckloiodyne | 1 | — | 1 | |
| „ Belladonna | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Falls | 2 | — | 2 | |
| Asphyxia from Noxious Vapours | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Erysipelas after Burns | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Homicidal | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Open Verdicts | Drowning | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Execution | 1 | — | 1 | |
| 50 | 25 | 75 | ||
Uncertified
Deaths.
Four deaths were not certified by a registered
medical practitioner, and were referred to the
Coroner, but no inquest was held. Two were cases of
premature birth, another was stated to have died from
whooping cough, and the fourth from trismus neonatorum,
or lockjaw of the newly born.
General.
Remarks.
The death-rate for the year corrected for internal
and external institutions was 16.94 per
1,000, an increase of l.18 per 1,000 compared with 1895.
Owing to the prevalence of measles and whooping cough,
and to the increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever
and diphtheria, it is remarkable that the death-rate was
not much higher. To make this death-rate absolutely
comparable to the other death-rate in London and the
provinces, it must be multiplied by the factor for