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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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The zymotic death-rate was 149 per thousand of the
population, a lower rate than has been previously recorded.
If the ten deaths from infectious disease
occurring in outlying institutions be included, the
zymotic death-rate becomes 1.73 per thousand, which
is still very much lower than that for the whole of
London.
| 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 14 | 12 | 3 | .. | 2 | 7 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. |
| Measles | 13 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 15 | 33 | 33 | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever . | 13 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 15 | 26 | 8 | 3 | . . |
| Diphtheria | .. | . . | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
| Enteric Fever. | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| Whooping-Cough | 17 | 12 | 29 | 25 | 25 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 25 |
| Epidemic Diarrhœa | 24 | 18 | 26 | 17 | 36 | 20 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 16 |
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 16 | 9 | 9 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 26 | 12 | 5 |
| Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 102 | 64 | 110 | 102 | 119 | 78 | 81 | 112 | 95 | 61 |
| Zymotic Death-rate | 3.3 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.49 |
| Death-rate from all Diseases | 17.7 | 14.8 | 18.1 | 17.0 | 14.9 | 13.5 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 13.7 | 12.4 |
An examination of the preceding table shews that no
deaths occurred from Small-pox in the sub-district.
Between January 30th 1885 and the end of the year, 21
cases of Small-pox were admitted into the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals from this sub-district, of which
4 died.