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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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94 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
No deaths from violence occurred in the subdistrict
during the year
TABLE V.

Table: Zymotic Mortality,

Zymotic Mortality,

188918901891189218931894189618961897
Small Pox..................
Measles61..7..9211*3*
Scarlet Fever1....11852*60*94*76*
Diphtheria............118*176*192*
Typhus Fever........• •........
Enteric Fever..1....111....
Whooping Cough3210..53l6*2
Epidemic Diarrhoea13..441666
Other Zymotic Diseases, including Influenza1241466*23..
Total Dt aihsfrom Zymotic Class0129141331131189t295*278*
Zymotic Death-rate2.41.62.02.45.05.l.†2.6†2.8 †10†
Death-rate from allCauses13-1618-616*024-821.118.l†20.6†14.2112.2†

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* Includes deaths of Non-Parishioners in Metropolitan Asylums Board
Hospital (Fountain). See Table III.
t Corrected Statistics.
Prevalence of In
fectlous Disease.
The following Table "B" classifies the
cases of infectious disease notified during
the year, and also the removals to isolation hospitals.
Seventy-three notifications of infectious disease
were received during the year, of which Scarlet Fever
contributed 31, Diphtheria 24, Erysipelas 15, and Enteric
three. Forty-one cases were removed to hospital.
Small Pox.
No case of this disease occurred in the
sub-district during the year.
Scarlet Fever.
Thirty-one cases of Scarlet Fever occurred
during the year, and it is a rather remarkable
fact that the same number occurred in both of the two
preceding years. Twenty-five of the cases were removed