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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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Table: TABLE TABLE OFpopulation, births, and of new cases of infectious sickness,(B) coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Healthy during the year1897,in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District ofPutney ; classified according toDiseases, Ages,andLocalities.

TABLE TABLE OFpopulation, births, and of new cases of infectious sickness,

(B) coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Healthy during the year1897,in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of

Putney ; classified according toDiseases, Ages,andLocalities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being: shown as separate localities.Population at all agesRegistered BirthsAged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Casks Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 1897.12345678910111234567891011
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranols Croup.FeversCholera.Erysipelas.
TyphusEnteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.Cholera.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
PUTNEY2056621125510Under 5...16........................1...107......3...............
5 upwds...5235......13......2...913319........................
Under 6..................................................................
.........5 upwds..................................................................
Under 5..................................................................
.........5 upwds..................................................................
Under 5..................................................................
.........5 upwds..................................................................
Under 5..................................................................
Total.........5 upwds..................................................................