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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TABLE IV.
Zymotic Mortality. | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 |
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Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 |
Small Pox | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | .. | 2 | 10 | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. |
Enteric Fever | 2 | 10 | 3 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Diphtheria | 24 | .. | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Whooping Cough | 2 | 8 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 17 |
Diarrhœa and Dysentery | 5 | 8 | 4 | 9 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 4 | 10 |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 2 | .. | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 7 | .. |
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 44 | 28 | 18 | 42 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 21 | 21 | 36 |
Zymotic Death-rate | 3.1 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 2.49 | 0.44 | 1.0 | 0.73 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.9 |
Death-rate for all Diseases | 17.1 | 13.7 | 11.2 | 11.8 | 12.5 | 11.7 | 11.1 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 13.6 |
Influenza.—Six deaths were attributed primarily to this
disease. A good many others were doubtless caused by it
indirectly. This peculiar disorder has been epidemic with
us for the last three years. Daring that time it has never
been quite extinct, and the three annual epidemics of the
last three years could more properly be called three
annual exacerbations of the one epidemic. There has
been no fortnight during the last three years, in which
deaths have not occurred in London from this disease. In
my experience, however, the type of the disease in 1892
was of a milder character than during the two former
years.