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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Years. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Cholera. | Diarrhoea. _____ | Fever—Typhus and Typhoid. | Total Deaths from Epidemic. | Total Deaths from all causes. | Per centage of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes. |
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1874 | .. | 14 | 2 | 19 | .. | 12 | 6 | 62 | 453 | 11.5 | |
1876 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14 | .. | 17 | 6 | 46 | 420 | 10.9 |
1876 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 10 | .. | 16 | 12 | 71 | 461 | 15.4 |
1877 | .. | .. | 21 | .. | 11 | .. | 16 | 9 | 57 | 384 | 14.8 |
1878 | .. | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | .. | 19 | 3 | 38 | 422 | 9.0 |
1879 | 1 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 44 | .. | 7 | 8 | 92 | 516 | 17.8 |
1880 | .. | 9 | 24 | 4 | 16 | .. | 20 | 6 | 78 | 484 | 16.1 |
1881 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 1 | 12 | .. | 19 | 4 | 69 | 507 | 13.6 |
1882 | .. | 18 | 9 | 3 | 26 | .. | 29 | 9 | 94 | 544 | 17.2 |
1883 | .. | 14 | 6 | 11 | 5 | .. | 10 | 12 | 57 | 499 | 11.4 |
1884. | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 17 | .. | 27 | 4 | 64 | 576 | 11.1 |
The total deaths that resulted from the above diseases
were 64 in number, and less by a thirteenth part than the
average of the preceding tea years corrected for increase of
population ; and the proportion that they bore to the deaths
from all causes was upwards of one-third less than such
average. Two diseases only of the class exceeded their
average fatality; these were Diphtheria and Diarrhoea, the
former by one half, the latter by more than a third. Fever
was less latal than the average by one half, Measles and
Scarlatina by rather less than one-half, while the deaths