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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 1887

[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 III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

EAST BATTERSEA.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Total.Male.| Female.Under .1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.Lunatic County Asylum.
Disease.
Small-pox....................
Scarlet Fever1587..15....114..
Diphtheria312..3..21....
Enteric Fever1..1..1....1....
Whooping Cough211..2..2......
Measles....................
Other Zymotic Diseases43112113....
Tubercular Diseases311615182,151411
Cancerl5510..132411....
Rheumatism11....1....1....
Respiratory Diseases134919376....
Circulatory Diseases20137..128911....
Nervous Diseases21111011379516
Other Diseases3516193257l617..2
Violence21156..147417....
Totals18294887138376988169

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Ages at Under one year of age 404 deaths, equal to
39.8 of the total mortality at all ages took
place. From one to five years 215 deaths occurred,
comprising 21.1 of the total mortality—together 60.9 of
the deaths for the year was recorded in persons under
five years of age.
The majority of deaths from zymotic diseases, 205,
were included in these ages, altogether 619 deaths were
recorded within these earlier years of childhood.
Above 80 years of age 21 persons died, which is
precisely the number certified as dying from old age.