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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 1919

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1919

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The corrected number of deaths, after adding the deaths of
persons belonging to the Borough, and subtracting those of persons
dying in the Borough and not belonging thereto, was 3,752, 1,769
of males, and 1,983 of females.
The corrected death-rate for the year was 11.31 compared
with 15.07 in 1918.
The death-rate for the whole of London for the year was 13.4
per 1,000, compared with 18.9 in 1918.
Table IX. shows the total number of deaths and the deathrates
for each sub-district and for the whole Borough, corrected
and uncorrected for deaths in Public Institutions.

Table: TABLE IX.

TABLE IX.

Sub-Districts.Corrected Deaths.Uncorrected Deaths.Corrected Death-rate
Males.Females.Total.Males.Females.Total.
Clapham35939275127535963412.61
Putney17017634613813627412.10
Streatham5496961,24540851892611.85
Tooting1681843523483346829.09
Wandsworth5235351,0585195171,03610.58
Whole Borough1,7691,9833,7521,6881,8643,55211.31

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The death-rate in England and Wales in 1919 was 13.8 per
1,000; in the 96 great Towns 13.8; and in the 148 smaller Towns 12.6.
The rates in all the sub-districts were much lower than in 1918.
There are only six towns in England and Wales with a greater
population than the Borough of Wandsworth—viz., Bristol,
Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield—and in
them the mortality and the infantile mortality for the year 1919
were, respectively: 13.1 and 82,13.6 and 88, 16.8 and 107,14.0 and
95, 16.0 and 112, and 137 and 96.