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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 1861
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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TABLE IV.
Showing the total Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases
registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District,
and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality
in the several years 1855-61.
Deaths from Epidemics in each
Sub-District.
Entire District.
Years.
Clapham.
Battersea.
Wandsworth.
Putney.
Streatham.
Total Deaths from
Epidemics.
Total Deaths Registered.
Percentage of Deaths
from Epidemics to
Total Deaths.
1855
41
39
50
4
16
150
1144
13.1
1856
39
45
44
13
15
156
1144
13.6
1857
55
46
28
7
14
150
1097
13.6
1858
85
100
22
20
15
241
1264
19.0
1859
63
96
60
26
38
283
1322
21.4
1860
90
62
22
2
11
187
1374
13.6
1861
76
112
30
21
18
257
1393
18.4
*** The Diseases included in the above Table are seven in number, and
estimate,as in the Registrar-General's Returns, the principal maladies of the
Zymotic class, viz., Small Pox, Measles, Scarlatina. Diphtheria, Hooping Cough,
Diarrhœa, and Fever.