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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 1864

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table: TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, and the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the Tear ending December 31st 1861. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, and the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the Tear ending December 31st 1861. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

SUB-DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-District.1—Small Pox.2—Measles.3—Scarlatina and Malignant Sore Throat.4—Whooping-cough.5—Diarrhoea and Dysentery.6—Cholera.7—Fever.8—Erysipelas.9—Puerperal Fever.10—Lung Diseases, except Phthisis.11—Phthisis.12—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy, Scrofula, and Convulsions of Children.13—Other Diseases.14—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth.Total Deaths in each Sub-District.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Clapham105024124415..31671......11534...4...81926715...6161356240
Wandsworth13521911...2...1611152......253171......167118489896478...38
Battersea8425752...19...7...4512...3623...1...1166173......5001237...29
Putney42220.........6...1...283......20...2...3155211862421036...23
Streatham, including Tooting and Balham1742.........1...4...91......314.........2135531105717...18
Totals3840122727443...31226482...19993018144031572034162359462242148