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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The deaths that resulted from the seven principal
epidemic and other diseases of the Zymotic class during
the past and ten preceding years, with the relative proportion
which they bore to the deaths from all causes, are
shewn in the following table; the increase and decrease
of deaths in 1889 are also compared with the annual
average number in the ten years 1879-88, raised in proportion
to increase of population:—
Diseases. | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1 89 | 1889. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. above corrected average. | No. below corrected average | ||||||||||||||
Small Pox | .. | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1.6 | ||||
Measles | 16 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 19 | 28 | 20 | 39 | 7 | .. | 13 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 15 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | 10 | ||
Diphtheria | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | .. | |||
Typhus Enteric | 8 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | .. | 3.7 | |||
Whooping Cough | 44 | 15 | 12 | 26 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 31 | 8 | 40 | 6 | .. | 19 | ||
Diarrhœa Cholera | 7 | 20 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 21 | .. | 6 | ||
Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases | 92 | 78 | 69 | 94 | 57 | 64 | 94 | 111 | 67 | 125 | 44 | 55 | |||
Other Zymotic Diseases | 12 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | .. | 8 | ||
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 104 | 92 | 76 | 108 | 77 | 83 | 97 | 116 | 71 | 127 | 47 | .. | 64 | ||
Zymotic Deathrate per 1,000 population | 4 14 | 3.35 | 2-71 | 3.72 | 2.57 | 2.70 | 3.07 | 3.58 | 2.14 | 3.73 | 1.35 | .. | 2.39 | ||
Total Deaths from all causes | 516 | 484 | 507 | 544 | 499 | 576 | 628 | 722 | 610 | 711 | 494 | .. | 180 | ||
Per ceiitage of Deaths from Epidemics to Deaths from all causes | 17.8 | 16.1 | 13.6 | 17.2 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 10.9 | 17.5 | 8.90 | .. | 8.09 |