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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 IT.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IT.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small-pox..................
Scarlet Fever211..2......2
Diphtheria11....1....1... .
Enteric Fever11....1....1..
Whooping Cough312..3..3....
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases20119..1821352
Cancer615..5124..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases1495194833
Circulatory Diseases1055..6482..
Nervous Diseases181081134864..
Other Diseases1367..85571
Violence532131..5..
Totals93494436921473412
Corresponding Totals for 18867744384452835375

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It will be seen that 47 of the external deaths occurred
in the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary,
34 in various general and special hospitals, and 12 in
the Asylums' Board Hospitals. If these 93 deaths be
added to the 600 occurring in Clapham, the death-rate
becomes 16.5 per thousand as compared with 14.8 in the
preceding year.
Deaths
occurring in
Clapham.
The following table gives a summary of all
the deaths registered as occurring in this subdistrict
during the past year, classified according to
cause, sex, and social position; and a more detailed list
of the deaths from zymotic diseases.