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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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Table: 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 1855-65.

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 1855-65.

Years.Deaths from Epidemics in each Sub-District.Entire District.
Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney.Streatham.Total Deaths from Epidemics.Total Deaths Registered.Per centage of Deaths from Epidemics to Total Deaths.
1855413950416150114413.1
18563945441315156114413.6
1857554628714150109713.6
185885100222015241126419.0
18596396602638283132221.4
1860906222211187137413.6
186176112302118257139318.4
186252106621316233134317.3
18639586622932304147129.9
186463129431122268168815.8
186575177541126343178319.2

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*** The Diseases included in the above Table are seven in number, and constitute,
as in the Registrar-General's Return, the principal maladies of the Zymotic
class—viz.: Small Pox, Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, Diarrhoea
and Dysentery, and Fever.
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