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Wandsworth 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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There were 77 deaths in this class, 38 were
their of miles and 39 of females. This yields a per
.Prevalence
and centage of l3.0 upon the deaths from all causes
Fatality. during the year, as against 14.3 per cent last
year, and gives a death-rate of 1.7 per 1,000 of the
population.
More than half the mortality was due to diphtheria
and whooping-cough.
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 and Tooting Sub-district.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham and Tooting Sub-district.

1879188018811882188318341885188618871888
Small-pox............••..........
Measles21357821121..
Scarlet Fever53113928....45
Diphtheria271413356730
Enteric Fever3529846321
Typhus Fever. .... ........ .. .1. .
Whooping Cough Epidemic21891119726622
Diarrhœa369391112201613
Other Zymotic Diseases101091015112173
Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases46684641655434676477
Zymotic Death-rate2.22.71.71.62.31.81.12.11.61.7
Death-rate from all Diseases.15.613.912.112.614.915.313.915.011.611.4

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Referring to the table, it will be seen that there was
no death from Small Pox, nor was any case removed to
hospital, it may therefore be assumed that the disease
was not present.