Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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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 years1858-68.
Year | Deaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District. | Entire District. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clapham. | Battersea. | Wandsworth. | Putney. | Streatham. | Total Deaths from the Seven Epidemics. | Total Deaths Registered from all causes | Per centage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths. | |
1858 | 85 | 100 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 241 | 1264 | 19.0 |
1859 | 63 | 96 | 60 | 26 | 38 | 283 | 1322 | 21.4 |
1860 | 90 | 62 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 187 | 1374 | 13.6 |
1861 | 76 | 112 | 30 | 21 | 18 | 257 | 1393 | 18.4 |
1862 | 52 | 106 | 62 | 13 | 16 | 233 | 1343 | 17.3 |
1863 | 95 | 86 | 62 | 29 | 32 | 304 | 1471 | 29.9 |
1864 | 63 | 129 | 43 | 11 | 22 | 268 | 1688 | 15.8 |
1865 | 75 | 177 | 54 | 11 | 26 | 343 | 1783 | 19.2 |
1866 | 86 | 244 | 73 | 16 | 34 | 453 | 2072 | 21.3 |
1867 | 56 | 122 | 33 | 21 | 10 | 242 | 1937 | 12.4 |
1868 | 99 | 194 | 64 | 14 | 28 | 399 | 2168 | 18.4 |
* Diseases included in the above Table constitute, as in the RegistrarGeneral
s Returns, the principal maladies only of the Zymotic class—'viz.: Small Pox,
Measles, scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, Diarrhœa and Cholera, and Fever.