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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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District.
that came from without the district. The number last
year, excluding these deaths was 331, on which, therefore,
there has been no great increase. The zymotic death-rate
was 1.85 per thousand living. The rates for the last
seven years are given below:—

Table: TABLE VIII.

TABLE VIII.

18881889189018911892189318941895
Clapham1.91.41.52.192.412.51.572.41
Putney1.0.731.11.231.972.61.41.68
Streatham1.7.81.82.212.351.741.521.79
Tooting..2.41.72.432.465.05.18*2.4*
Wandsworth3.71.33.32.073.802.542.31.62
Whole District2.11.12.12.062.762.391.88*1.85*
•Excluding drnths at Fountain Hospital from outside district.
TABLE VIII.
18881889189018911892189318941895
Clapham1.91.41.52.192.412.51.572.41
Putney1.0.731.11.231.972.61.41.68
Streatham1.7.81.82.212.351.741.521.79
Tooting..2.41.72.432.465.05.18*2.4*
Wandsworth3.71.33.32.073.802.542.31.62
Whole District2.11.12.12.062.762.391.88*1.85*
•Excluding drnths at Fountain Hospital from outside district.

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The rate is very nearly the same as in 1894, and is
less than in the four preceding years If we add the
46 deaths from zymotic diseases that occurred in outlying
institutions (see Table IV.), We have a total of 394, and
a mortality of 2.16 compared with 3.1, 3.05 and 2.28 in
the three preceding years. There is therefore a fall in the
corrected zymotic death-rate.