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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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94
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Natural Causes Broncho-Pneumonia 1
Diairrhœa 1
Heart Disease 1—3
Violence:—
Accidental Burns 1
Scalds 1
Suffocation 1
Run over 1—4
Murder Cut throat 7*
Suicide Hanging 1
Poisoning 1—2
Neglect 1—1
— 14
* This refers to the wholesale murder of a family Total 11
In the early part of the year. —
Zymotic Mortality.
The following is a comparative table of tlie
zymotic mortality. Ac., of the past seven years:—

Table: TABLE V.Zymotic Mortality,

TABLE V.

Zymotic Mortality,

188918901S911892189318941895
Small Pox..............
Measles61, ,7.,92
Scarlet Fever1....11852*60*
Diphtheria............118*
Typhus Fever..,.......
Enteric Fever..1......11
Whooping Cough3210631
Epidemic Diarrhoea13..4410
Other Zymotic Diseases, including Influenza1241466*2
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases129141331131189‡
Zymotic Death-rate2.41.62.02.45 .06.1†2.6†
Death-rate from all Diseases13.1618.616.0324.821.118.1 †20 .5+
* Includes deaths of Non-Parishioners in Metropolitan Asylums Board Fountain Hospital. See Table No. III. † Corrected Statistics. ‡ Of the 189 Deaths, 173 are of Non-Parishioners and 16 of Parishioners.

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Prevalence of
Infectious Disease.
The following Table B indicates the number
of infections cases notified during the year, and removed
to Isolation Hospitals.