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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 1886

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

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15
Zymotic diseases caused 15.9 per cent of the total
deaths as compared with 15.2 per cent in the previous
year. The zymotic death-rate was 2.71 per 1,000 of
the population, as compared with 2.56 in the previous
year. The largest number of deaths from zymotic
diseases were caused by the seven chief epidemic diseases
enumerated in the following table:—

Table: TABLE IX.

TABLE IX.

Whole District.East Battersea.West Battersea.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.
Small-pox..............
Measles12444261141128
Scarlet Fever21951....6
Diphtheria326361610
Enteric Fever3911133138
Whooping-cough213624234182631
Epidemic
Diarrhoea23078702592028
Other Zymotic Diseases422274315
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases701232166843667116
Zymotic Death-rate2.713.332.42.002.362.133.58
Dea'.h-rate from all Diseases17.0616.215.912.911.215019.0

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If to the 701 deaths from zymotic diseases be added
the 31 deaths from the same diseases in outlying institutions
of inhabitants of this district (see table IV.),
the zymotic death-rate becomes 2.84 per 1,000 of
population.
By comparing tables IV. and IX. the relative local
incidence of the various epidemic diseases will be best