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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: Deaths in 0ullying Institutions.

Deaths in 0ullying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.FemaleUnder 1.1 to 60.60 and upwardsUnion Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Measles..................
Scarlet Fever55....5......5
Diphtheria.....................
Whooping Cough..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever11......... .1
Diarrhoea..................
Other Zymotic Diseases.1..1....11....
Total Zymotc Diseases761..611..6
Tubercular Diseases15132..132123..
Cancer11......11....
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases8351348....
Circulatory Diseases725..4361..
Nervous Diseases51413141..
Other Diseases24121241191212..
Violence22....11..2..
Total6940296412244196

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Death-rate. Determined from the total deaths registered
and the official estimate of the population, the death-rate
of the past year was 16.59 per 1,000 persons living. In
this calculation, correction is made for the deaths that
occurred in the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, St
Peter's Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables, the
inmates of which institutions are derived almost entirely