[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 24

Wandsworth 1876

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

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Table: Inquests, Violent Deaths, dc. - There were 25 inquests held during the year, with the following results: viz.,

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Inquests, Violent Deaths, dc. - There were 25 inquests held during the year, with the following results: viz.,

Deaths from Natural Causes		11
	Accident	11
Deaths from Violence	Suicide	1
	Cause Unknown	2

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In 7 instances the cause of death was not certified by
medical testimony, in each of which, it is scarcely necessary
to observe, death may have resulted from other than natural
causes. The intervention of a medical enquiry in every
case of death, the cause of which has not been certified by
medical testimony, is so obvious a necessity in the interests
of society, that it ought to be invariably secured. (See
last year's and previous Reports on the subject.)
Epidemic Diseases—their prevalence and fatality.—

Table: The following Table shews the deaths which have resulted from the 7 principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes.

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The following Table shews the deaths which have resulted from the 7 principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes.

YEARS	Small Pox	Measles	Scarlet Fever	Diphtheria	Whooping'Cough			Fever—Typhus and Typhoid	Total Deaths From Epidemics	Total Deaths from all causes	Per centage of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes
YEARS	Small Pox	Measles	Scarlet Fever	Diphtheria	Whooping'Cough	Cholera	Diarrhœa	Fever—Typhus and Typhoid	Total Deaths From Epidemics	Total Deaths from all causes
1866	3	23	10	2	5	7	18	5	73	351	20.7
1867	3	1	7	1	6	1	7	7	33	332	9.9
1868	...	8	5	2	20	...	22	7	64	394	16.2
1869	...	23	36	...	7	...	23	5	94	429	21.9
1870	...	2	48	4	16	...	33	10	113	450	25.1
1871	14	31	23	...	11	...	21	3	103	453	22.7
1872	1	5	1	3	13	...	20	4	47	365	12.8
1873	...	4	...	3	8	...	22	7	44	433	10.1
1874	...	14	2	...	19	...	12	5	62	453	11.5
1875	1	2	5	2	14	...	17	5	46	420	10.9
1876	1	17	12	1	10	2	16	12	71	461	15.4

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Wandsworth 1876

Table: Inquests, Violent Deaths, dc. - There were 25 inquests held during the year, with the following results: viz.,

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Table: The following Table shews the deaths which have resulted from the 7 principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes.