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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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| 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 28 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Measles | 47 | 6 | 47 | 22 | 60 | 33 | 25 | 92 | 49 | 44 | 33 |
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 19 | 44 | 63 | 20 | 36 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| Simple Continued Fever 1 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Enteric Fever | 2 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | |||||||
| Whooping Cough | 26 | 63 | 39 | 43 | 37 | 56 | 53 | 60 | 47 | 62 | 58 |
| Epidemic Diarrhœa | 47 | 71 | 43 | 78 | 45 | 37 | 61 | 98 | 63 | 82 | 99 |
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 22 | 20 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 19 | 20 | 9 | 19 | 27 |
| Total Deaths from Zymotic | |||||||||||
| Diseases | 206 | 194 | 218 | 237 | 217 | 194 | 185 | 317 | 198 | 232 | 216 |
| Zymotic Death -rate | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| Death-rate from all Diseases | 19.2 | 17.3 | 17.5 | 18.9 | 16.8 | 16.4 | 16.5 | 18.6 | 16.0 | 16.2 | 14.0 |
Zymotic Diseases.—Table IV. illustrates at a glance the
deaths from diseases of this class during the past decade
as contrasted with those of 1887. The population of the
latter year may be computed at twice that of 1877 when
the table commences, a fact to be borne in mind when
comparing the relative numbers, for which due allowance
is made in the zymotic death-rate, which was for
1887, the same as that for the preceding year, 3 3
per thousand.
Small-pox.—No death resulted from this disease during
the year, and no cases were sent into the Hospital.
Epidemic Diarrhoea.—This was the most fatal of the
z) motic diseases during the year, the number being 99,
being the greatest number during the decade. The
death-rate for the year from this disease was 13 per
thousand.
The mortality from this disease was great in London
and the country generally, and was coincident with
excessive temperature and deficient lainfall, the