Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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CAUSES OF DEATH. | Number in Entire District. | Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | Union Infirmary. | General and Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 6 | 0 | .. | 4 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 5 |
Diphtheria | 12 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | 7 | 5 |
Enteric Fever | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | |
Whooping Cough | 4 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | |
Measles | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | ||
Other Zymotic Diseases | 9 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 5 | 3 | .. | |
Tubercular Diseases | 52 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 27 | 24 | 1 |
Cancer | 21 | 7 | l | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 13 | .. |
Rheumatism | 1 | 0 | .. | .. | 0 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. |
Respiratory Diseases | 33 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 19 | 13 | 1 |
Circulatory Diseases | 28 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 11 | 0 | |
Nervous Diseases | 39 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 3 | |
Other Diseases | 62 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 41 | 20 | 1 |
Violence | 15 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | .. |
Total | 286 | 91 | 28 | 42 | 13 | 112 | 140 | 129 | 17 |
Corresponding Totals in preceding year | 328 | 107 | 40 | 63 | 128 | 174 | 213 | 41 |
Through the Registrar General's Office we are enabled
in table IV. to give the number of such deaths and to
classify them according to the Parishes from which they
come and to the different institutions in which death
took place. Here again as in the general mortality tables
there are fewer deaths registered than in the preceding
year. The total number of such deaths recorded
was 286 while in the year 1888 there were 328. If these
280 deaths be added to the number registered within the