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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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86
Zymotic
Diseases—
their
Prevalence
and
Fatality.
There were 64 deaths in this class, 26 were
of males and 38 of females. This yields a per
centage of 14.3 upon the deaths from all causes
during the year, as against 14.1 per cent last
year, and gives a death-rate of 1.6 per 1,000 of the
population.
Nearly two-thirds of the mortality was due to measles
and diarrhoea.
The subjoined table contrasts all the deaths resulting
from the seven principal epidemic diseases, with the
death-rate therefrom, as well as the death-rate from all
diseases during the last ten years.

Table: TABLE IV.Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham Tooting Sub-district.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham Tooting Sub-district.

1878187918801881188218831884188518861887
Small-pox1..................
Measles1121357821121
Scarlet Fever253113928....4
Diphtheria32714133567
Enteric Fever1352984632
Typhus Fever..................1
Whooing-Cough11218911197236
Epidemic
Diarrhœa .133693911122016
Other Zymotic
Diseases..10109101511217
Total deaths from
Zymotic Diseases42416844416553346764
Zymotic Death
rate2.32.22.71.71.62.31.81.12.11.6
Death - rate from
all Diseases16.715.613. 912.112.614.915.313.91511.6

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On reference to the table, it will be seen that there
was no death from Small Pox, nor did any case die in
hospital. There was, however, late in the year an