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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DISEASE. | Total. | SEX. | AGE. | INSTITUTION. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female. | Under 1. | 1 to 60. | 60 and Upwards. | Union Infirmary. | General & Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals. | |||
Scarlet Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Diphtheria | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | |
Enteric Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Whooping cough | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Tubercular Diseases | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | |
Cancer | 6 | 4 | .. | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | .. | ||
Rheumatism | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | |
Respiratory Diseases | 5 | 3 | 2 | .. | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | .. | |
Circulartory Diseases | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | |
Nervous Diseases | 6 | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | .. | |
Other Diseases | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | .. | |
Violence | 4 | 4 | .. | 1 | 3 | •• | 2 | 2 | •• | |
Totals | 38 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 22 | 15 | 1 |
There were 38 deaths in out-lying institutions as
against 61 last year, 24 of males and 14 of females, 22
occurred in the Union Infirmary, 15 in general and
special hospitals, and one in the Asylums Board
Hospitals. "When these 38 deaths in out-lying districts
are added to the deaths that were registered in Streatham,
the death-rate is raised to 13.7 per 1000. On the other
hand there is no record of the deaths of non-parishioners
who died within the sub-district, but there is reason to
believe that they nearly, if not quite, equal in number the
extra parochial deaths, therefore 11.6 may be accepted
as the true death-rate for Streatham for the year 1891.