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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 1865

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

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and, as I have observed in a former Report, can only be
altered by persevering exertions in providing for workingmen
and their families more wholesome dwellings, a
mure abundant supply of pure water, and more efficient
drainage.
The last of these it is but reasonable to expect will be
secured upon the completion through the District of the
great sewer and its branches; and the other requisites
named will, it is hoped, follow in due course.

Table: ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The following table exhibits the fatality of the seven principal diseases of the epidemic class during the past year, as well as during the nine previous years, and will furnish a means of comparison that will show in a very satisfactory way the extraordinary fluctuations in the total number of deaths from epidemics in the several years named:—

ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The following table exhibits the fatality of the seven principal diseases of the epidemic class during the past year, as well as during the nine previous years, and will furnish a means of comparison that will show in a very satisfactory way the extraordinary fluctuations in the total number of deaths from epidemics in the several years named:—

Years.1856185718581859.186018611862186318641865
Small-pox.10196611137
Measles142142200624127
Scarlatina.982526242213281111
Diphtheria00009133124
Whooping-cough41313621141491015
Typhus47111265861411
Diarrhœa42716115117161120
Totals36578066917652956375