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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Deaths in
Out-lying
Institutions.
The following Table gives particulars of
these deaths occurring in various Institutions
outside the Sub-district. There were 97 such deaths,
of which 50 occurred in the Union Infirmary at Wandsworth,
40 in the general and special hospitals of the
Metropolis, 4 in the hospitals of the Asylums Board, and
3 from accidents before reaching hospital. If these 97
deaths are added to those of Table II. the death-rate
becomes 15.8:—
DISEASES. | Sex. | Age. | Institutions. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Males. | Females. | Under 1. | 1 to 60. | 60 and upwards. | Union Infirmary. | General & Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals. | |
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | l | .. | 1 | .. | l | .. | .. | .. | l |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Whooping Cough | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. |
Tubercular Diseases | 9 | 4 | 5 | .. | 9 | .. | 6 | 3 | .. |
Cancer | 8 | 2 | 6 | .. | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Rheumatism | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | l | 2 | .. | .. |
Respiratory Diseases | 17 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 9 | .. |
Circulatory Diseases | 14 | 6 | 8 | .. | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | .. |
Nervous Diseases | 14 | 7 | 7 | .. | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
Other Diseases | 22 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 9 | .. |
Violence | 8 | 8 | .. | .. | 4 | 4 | .. | 6 | .. |
Totals | 97 | 52 | 45 | 2 | 55 | 40 | 50 | 40 | 4 |
Ages at
Death.
The number of deaths at the different age
groups is shewn in Table II. From this it is