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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 1877

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

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Table: Zymotic Diseases—For the sake of comparison, I introduce a table here which shows the number of cases of this important class, at least of its most prominent sub-classes, during the last eleven years, 1867-77, inclusive

Zymotic Diseases—For the sake of comparison, I introduce a table here which shows the number of cases of this important class, at least of its most prominent sub-classes, during the last eleven years, 1867-77, inclusive

Years18671868186918701871187218731874187518761877
Small-pox7010694140021412
Measles3921423011203135
Scarlatina514294520623322134
Diphtheria3702333460...
Whooping cough72529918251415171712
Typhus102617121011106254
Diarrhoea & Cholera2123303131392527222418
Totals5610911711917812865105748655

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The year 1877, we are happy to see, is lowest on the
list, having fewer deaths from epidemic disease than
any other year in the table In the steady decrease
of these diseases we hope to show some results of our
sanitary efforts and science
Ages of Deceased—At the extremities of life the
mortality is high—at one a matter of regret, at the other
of rejoicing It is very sad that nearly one half of the
deaths were of children under ten years This is an
improvement, however, upon many previous years There
has been a diminution in the infantile mortality of
late years No less than 112 persons died upwards of 60
years, 17 of whom were 80 and upwards This is the
largest number recorded for the past twenty years