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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 1885

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

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50
The causes of death of persons dying without the
district will be found in the table following, they
were 68 in number.

Table: TABLE 111.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE 111.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

WEST BATTERSEA.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Disease.
Small Pox624..6......6
Scarlet Fever11....1......1
Typhus Fever................
Enteric Fever211..2....11
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases1050..10....91
Cancer211..2....2..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases972..9....9..
Circulatory Diseases1055..10....10..
Nervous Diseases761..7....52
Other Diseases185132l6....144
Violence321..3....3..
Totals683533266....5315

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Those occurring in Institutions within the district are included in the
General Mortality table.
inquests. Enquiries were held on the bodies of 32
males and 23 females, in all 55, being 4 less than those
of the previous year. The verdicts were as follows:—
From Natural Causes 30
„ Accidental 20
Found Drowned 2
,, Dead 1
Suicide 2
55
Of the Accidental causes 2 were killed on the railway,
3 by falls, 2 whilst bathing, 1 by poison, 3 from burns,
6 suffocated in bed.