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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 1897

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

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8
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The death-rate was a low one and less than the last
two years; it is also slightly less than the decennial
average. The rate for the Metropolis in 1897 was 18 2.
The Outlying Deaths above referred to are shown in
the following Table, and are arranged according to the
respective sub-districts to which they belong, and the
institutions in which they have occurred.

Table: TABLE IV.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IV.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever19536..6....19
Diphtheria5316315..19..548
Membranous-Croup..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever62..3..1....6
Continued Fever..................
Puerperal Fever..................
Cholera..................
Erysipelas..................
Measles1....1........1
Whooping Cough..1..1..45..1
Influenza2........211..
Diarrhœa73..2..1331
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular48114832222242
Cancer853......53..
Rheumatism61......651..
Respiratory Diseases63187632941133
Circulatory Diseases711241024348221
Nervous Diseases1495......131..
Other DiseasesI851017508100801005
Violence31123529526..
Age55........23..
Total525110491061924123620287
Corresponding Totals in preceding year47111536932220522920042