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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 V. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of tlie Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., (luring the year ended 31st December, 1865. Compiled from the District Medical Belief Books.

TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of tlie Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, &c., (luring the year ended 31st December, 1865. Compiled from the District Medical Belief 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—Erysipelas9—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.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Clapham105637210111...253881......12225...1...891018510...5771863143
Wandsworth111810...141715165.........4938.........14961486379114......37
Battersea10023832125612429.........3618...21937103401546761...33
Putney and Roehampton4001.........7.........18.........2923.........454......11258738...14
Streathara, including Tooting and Balliam1831.........71......4.........54.........353722...1081010...16
Totals37598752635784282041......241828...3...5113049185952230561721143