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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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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.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Roehampton Sub-district.

Zymotic Mortality.1886188718881889189018911892189318941895
Influenza............610617
Puerperal Fever......21..2311
Small Pox....................
Measles42..210....231
Scarlet Fever11..1..1..11..
Enteric Fever1..21111232
Diphtheria112........1432
Whooping Cough182668817124..
Diarrhoea and Dysentery9..4....4106610
Other Zymotic Diseases812..17....1..
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases4271612212136502833
Zymotic Death-rate2.490.441.00.731.11.11.92.61.41.6
Death-rate for all Diseases11.812.511.711.112.411.913.513.69.913.1