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Wandsworth 1867

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

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TABLE V. Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1867. 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—H ydrocephalus Atrophy, Scrofula, and Convulsions of Children.13—Other Diseases.14—Violence, Priv-tion, and Prema ture 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
Clapham10782027110...61531......14546...8...1621229102055402367160
Wandsworth13852617...152191120.........47113......2771294847742470150
Battersea254749111712514218011...12048.........391161071062114120119258
Putney and Roehampton4213.........5...17136.........316.........8952...71224629...14
Streatham, including Tooting and Balham26519215...71......8.........613.........526114...128820...19
Totals5691559646262484429721...3211136...8...971431482545122807713054201
*** ratio of deaths to cases treated was 3*5 per cent ; during the preceding year it was 4.8 per cent.