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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Sub-district of Putney and Roehampton.
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Zymotic Disease. In the following Table (Table IV.) deaths
arising from zymotic disease are tabulated and compared
with the previous nine years. 33 deaths were registered
as resulting from zymotic disease, but 17 of these were
due to influenza and 10 to diarrhoea, and only six from
all the other zymotic diseases put together No deaths
resulted from smallpox, scarlet fever, or whooping cough.
The zymotic death rate was 1.6 per 1,000 per annum,
very nearly the same as during the previous year. If
the three deaths from zymotic diseases which occurred
in outlying institutions be added, it gives a zymotic
death rate of 1.8 per 1,000 per annum.
Zymotic Mortality. | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 10 | 6 | 17 |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 4 | 2 | .. | 2 | 10 | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. |
Enteric Fever | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 3 | 2 |
Whooping Cough | 18 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 4 | .. |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 9 | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 4 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 10 |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 8 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 7 | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 42 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 21 | 21 | 36 | 50 | 28 | 33 |
Zymotic Death-rate | 2.49 | 0.44 | 1.0 | 0.73 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
Death-rate for all Diseases | 11.8 | 12.5 | 11.7 | 11.1 | 12.4 | 11.9 | 13.5 | 13.6 | 9.9 | 13.1 |