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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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Table: TABLE II.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE II.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 11 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small-pox431..4......4
Scarlet Fever..................
Diphtheria22....2....2..
Enteric Fever22....2....1..
Whooping-Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases22....2....2..
Tubercular Diseases972..9....7..
Cancer532..23..2..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases633..4..24..
Circulatory Diseases1477..6895..
Nervous Diseases15105..8787..
Other Diseases174132510116..
Violence11....1....1..
Totals7744334452835375

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It will be seen that 35 of the external deaths occurred
in the Wandsworth & Clapham Union Infirmary, 37 in
the various hospitals, and only 5 in the Asylums Board
Hospitals. If these 77 deaths be added to the 508
occurring in Clapham, the death-rate becomes 14.32 per
thousand living, as compared with 16.27 in the preceding
year. This remarkably low inclusive death-rate bears
out the conclusion already stated, of the excellent vital
condition of this sub-district during the past year.
Deaths
occurring in
Clapham.
The following table gives a summary of
all the deaths registered as occurring in
this sub-district during the past year, classified
according to cause, sex, and social position; and a more
detailed list of the deaths from zymotic diseases.