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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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general death-rates. The zymotic death-rate was 2.32
per thousand, or including the 7 deaths in external institutions,
2.53 per thousand of the estimated population.
| 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 3 | .. | 2 | 7 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Measles | 23 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 15 | 33 | 33 | 3 | 11 | 25 |
| Scarlet Fever | 12 | 12 | 21 | 15 | 26 | 8 | 3 | .. | 1 | 6 |
| Diphtheria | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Enteric Fever. | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| WhoopingCough | 29 | 25 | 25 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 25 | 34 | 25 |
| Epidemic Diarrhœa | 26 | 17 | 36 | 20 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 25 | 24 |
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 9 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 110 | 102 | 119 | 78 | 81 | 112 | 95 | 61 | 84 | 100 |
| Zymotic Deathrate | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.49 | 2.00 | 2.32 |
| Death-rate from all Disease | 18.1 | 17.0 | 14.9 | 13.5 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 12.9 | 13.93 |
During the year 1887, 10 deaths from Diphtheria
have occurred in Clapham, and 1 of a Clapham inhabitant
in an outlying institution. Altogether 20 cases have come
to our knowledge in 13 houses. The date, locality, and
other particulars of these 20 cases are given in the
following table :—