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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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38
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Deaths in
out-lying
Institutions.
The next table gives particulars of these deaths.
They were 117 in number and are classified
according to causes of death and age groups, and the
character of institution in which they occurred. 50 took
place in the Union Infirmary, 52 in the General and Special
Hospitals, and 15 in those of the Metropolitan Asylums'
Board. There were 126 of these deaths in 1894:—

Table: TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.SexAgeInstitutions
Total.Males.Females.Under1.1 to65.65 and upwards.Union Infrmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox1..1..1......1
Scarlet Fever22....2......2
Diphtheria853..8......8
Enteric Fever321..3....21
Erysipelas1..1....11....
Measles1..1..1......1
Whooping Cough1..1..1....1..
Influenza211..2..2....
Diarrhœa.111....1....
Other Zymotic Diseases................
Tubercular Diseases1358112..67..
Cancer1248..12..57..
Rheumatism................
Respiratory Diseases1811711071332
Circulatory Diseases1073..5573..
Nervous Diseases21111011191110..
Other Diseases1477662212..
Violence761..5225..
Old Age2..2....2..2..
Totals..6255107928505215