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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 1869

[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 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, 1869. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

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, 1869. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

SUB-DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated ineach Sub-district.1—Small Pox.2—Measles.3—Scarlatina and Malignant Sore Throat.4—Whooping Cough.5—Diarrhoea and Dyseutery.6—Cholera.7—Fever.| 8—Erysipelas.9—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
Clapham109517412...38417...633......18655.........1901122104874342263...66
Wandsworth21301...14086362511709......53...20.........320715109512135101162
Battersea183631...404209326676......8997...1...3171258721310662287482
Putney and Roehampton495......50...15215138.........1712.........49212811280416120
Streatham, including Tooting and Balham118............8.........3...........................9432......951......7
Totals5674494242121442189834118......3451534...1...885361103779163088642676237