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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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Showing the total number of deaths and their causes, registered in the entire District during the nine years 1887-95, with the relative numbers of each class of disease:—
1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Scarlet Fever | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 7 | |
Diphtheria | 20 | 53 | 30 | 15 | 22 | 36 | 54 | 39 | 24 | |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 17 | 13 | 9 | |
Typhus | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
ZYMOTIC. | Enterio Fever | 10 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 18 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Erysipelas | 11 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 4 | |
M easles | 08 | 53 | 31 | 87 | 78 | 78 | 32 | 79 | 25 | |
Whooping Cough | 41 | 96 | 39 | 95 | 75 | 89 | 74 | 53 | 22 | |
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | 21 | 61 | 112 | 63 | 43 | 126 | |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 70 | 64 | 41 | 73 | 51 | 82 | 104 | 54 | 106 | |
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 | .. | 6 | 1 | |
Totals of Zymotic Class | 240 | 304 | 169 | 322 | 324 | 450 | 389 | 331 | 348 | |
Gout and Rheumatism | 26 | 18 | 14 | 33 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 26 | 11 | |
Cancer and other Tumours | 78 | 70 | 68 | 89 | 103 | 101 | 90 | 115 | 118 | |
Other constitutional diseases | 18 | 12 | 15 | 38 | 21 | 25 | 23 | 16 | 16 | |
Tubercular | 268 | 257 | 219 | 265 | 246 | 256 | 228 | 231 | 256 | |
Nervous | 292 | 298 | 282 | 294 | 287 | 302 | 295 | 246 | 308 | |
Circulatory | 142 | 160 | 146 | 150 | 180 | 185 | 179 | 172 | 206 | |
Respiratory | 330 | 357 | 302 | 473 | 510 | 453 | 488 | 340 | 486 | |
Digestive | 119 | 119 | 107 | 123 | 149 | 131 | 157 | 149 | 144 | |
Urinary | 52 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 55 | 79 | 69 | 61 | 65 | |
Generative | 4 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 13 | |
Locomotory | 1 | .. | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Integumentary | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | |
Premature Births, Low Vitality, and Malformation | 144 | 156 | 149 | 174 | 170 | 183 | 215 | 164 | 218 | |
Old Age | 97 | 96 | 103 | 104 | 95 | 95 | 114 | 114 | 128 | |
Violence | 39 | 48 | 48 | 66 | 64 | 61 | 59 | 66 | 70 | |
Ill-defined and not specified | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 1 | |
Totals | 18 35 | 1964 | 1698 | 2213 | 2237 | 2385 | 2360 | 2053 | 2389 |
Zymotic
Diseases. In the above table 348 deaths are set down
to diseases of this class. It does not include those
deaths that occurred in outlying institutions however,
nor the numerous deaths from scarlet fever and diphtheria
that occurred in the Fountain Hospital at Tootiug