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Wandsworth 1874
[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 years 1864—74.
Deaths from the seven principal
Epidemics in each Sub-District.
Entire District.
Years.
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.
1864
63
128
43
11
22
268
1688
15.8
1865
75
177
54
1
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
1869
117
247
94
31
27
516
2393
21.5
1870
119
404
113
19
37
692
2659
26.0
1871
178
463
103
32
31
807
2867
28.8
1872
128
220
47
20
31
446
2421
18.4
1873
65
205
43
6
32
350
2570
13.6
1874
114
238
52
10
26
440
2796
15.7
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* The 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, Diarrhoea and Cholera, and Fever.