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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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9
public institutions of West Battersea and WandsWorth.
But a true estimate of the mortality of the Wandsworth
District should include the deaths of its inhabitants
which occur in external institutions, as shown in the
following table:—

Table: TABLE D.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE D.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.East Battercea.West Battersea.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox311564l23• •..31
Scarlet Fever2..1. .1........2
Diphtheria107..2l......10..
Enteric Fever8322....1..33
Whooping Cough1..........11• •• •
Measles....................
Other Zymotic Diseases96..2....1441
Tubercular Diseases6427109521123401
Cancer3113252451120..
Rheumatism21........1. .2..
Respiratory Diseases63229643193033. .
Circulatory Diseases5518101443627262
Nervous Diseases6518715681141222
Other Diseases1073518175151743604
Violence211431..12..21..
469179687729387818024148

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It will be seen that 469 deaths occurred in outlying
institutions, of which 180 were in the Union Infirmary,
241 in the general and special Hospitals of the Metropolis,