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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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36
Medical Officers of Health Animal Report.
Deaths in
Outlying
Institutions.
The next table gives particulars of these deaths,
from which they are seen to be 110 in number.
They are there classified according to causes of
deaths and age groups, and the character of the institution
in which they occurred. In the Union Infirmary there
were 51, in the general and special hospitals, 41, and in
the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board 18.
There were 115 of these deaths in the previous year.

Table: TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.SexAgeInstitutions
Total.Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 65.65 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever532..5......5
Diphtheria1697..14......11
Enteric Fever211..2......2
Erysipelas..................
Measles..................
Whooping Cough11....1..1....
Iufluenza..................
Diarrhoea3..3..1..2....
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases1165..11..38..
Cancer532..5..32..
Rheumatism1..1........1..
Respiratory Diseases18117..108162..
Circulatory Diseases .1257..66111..
Nervous Diseases927..639....
Other Diseases106436137..
Violence12661101111..
Old Age5..5....523..
Totals110535777726514118