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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 III.

Table: TABLE III.Deaths at Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths at Outlying Institutions.

Sex.Age.Institutions.
DISEASE.Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylumns Board Hospitals.
Small-pox• •• •••• •• •• •• •• •• •
Scarlet Fever• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Typhus Fever• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Enteric Fever• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
V\ hooping-cough• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Measles• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Other Zymotic Diseases11• •• •1• •• •1• •
Tubercular Diseases11• •• •• •11• •• •
Cancer• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Rheumatism• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Respiratory Diseases844• •368• •• •
Circulatory Diseases312• •2121• •
Nervous Diseases963• •818• •1
Other Diseases4• •4• •2231• •
Violence11• •• •1• •••1• •
Totals271413• •17102241

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Zymotic
Diseases.
Table IV. reveals a highly satisfactory condition
as regards the prevalence of infectious
diseases. We have had no deaths recorded from Small
Pox, Enteric Fever, or Epidemic Diarrhoea. Measles
and Whooping Cough have each proved fatal in two
cases, while from Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria there
has only been one fatal case. This death-rate from
zymotic diseases altogether was only .44 per 1,000.
This very low death-rate is all the more extraordinary
considering the prevalence of the Scarlet Fever epidemic
throughout the year. It is only, however, right to add
that the type of fever during this last epidemic has been