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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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58
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

Table: TABLE IV.Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Roehampton Sub-district.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Roehampton Sub-district.

Zymotic Mortality.1888188918901891189218931894189518961897
Influenza........61061745
Puerperal Fever..21..2311....
Small Pox....................
Measles..210....23121..
Scarlet Fever..1..1..11......
Enteric Fever2111123241
Diphtheria2........143224
Whooping Cough668817124..177
Diarrhoea and....................
Dysentery4....4106610621
Other Zymotic
Diseases2..17....1......
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases16122121365028335438
Zymotic Death-rate1.00.731.11.11.92.61.41.62.61.7
Death-rate for all Diseases ..11-711-112-411-913-513-1,9-913-112-211-2

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Id Table IV. all deaths arising from zymotic disease,
and registered within the sub-district, are tabulated and
compared with the previous nine years.
Thirty-eight deaths occurred from diseases of this
character compared with 54 during 1896. More than
half of these deaths were from Diarrhoea and Dysentery.
The zymotic death-rate was 1.'7 per 1,000 per annum.
The decennial average was 1.5 per 1,000 per annum.
If we add the six deaths which occurred iu outlying institutions,
it gives us a total of 44 deaths from zymotic
diseases, which is equivalent to a zymotic death-rate of
2 per 1,000 per annum.
One hundred and thirty-nine notifications of dangerous
infectious diseases were received from medical practitioners.