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 years 1866—76.
Deaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District. | Entire District. | |||||||
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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. |
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 | 105 | 238 | 52 | 10 | 26 | 440 | 2 96 | 15.7 |
1875 | 74 | 307 | 46 | 20 | 25 | 472 | 3096 | 15.2 |
1876 | 86 | 340 | 71 | 19 | 31 | 547 | 3154 | 17.4 |
*** 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.