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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 (B) The following Table classifies the notifications of infectious disease received luring the year under the provisions of Section 54 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, together with information concerning the removal of the infectious sick to isolation hospitals.TABLE TABLE OFPOPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS,(B) coming to the knowledge <f the Medical Officer of Healthy during the year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Tooting;classified according to D iseases, A ges, and Localities.

Table (B)

The following Table classifies the notifications of infectious disease received luring the year under the provisions of Section 54 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, together with information concerning the removal of the infectious sick to isolation hospitals.

TABLE TABLE OFPOPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS,

(B) coming to the knowledge <f the Medical Officer of Healthy during the year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Tooting;

classified according to D iseases, A ges, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all agesRegistered Births.Aped under or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital
Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 189712345 I6 I7 18 19101112345 I6 I7 1891011
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Fevers.Erysipelas,Totals.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Fevers.Puerperal.Erysipelas.Totals.
Enteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal.Enteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsing
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
TOOTING73077611325Under 5...89.....................17...74.....................11
5 upwds...2315......3.........1556...189......2.........130
Under 5
5 uowds
Under 5
5 upwds
Under 5
5 upwds
Under 5
5 upwds
Total73077611325Under 5...89.....................17...74.....................11
5 upwds...2315......3.........1556...189......2.........130