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Wandsworth 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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District, 9

Table: TABLE IV.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IV.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.TootingWandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asy umrsPoard Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever14115..7....14
Diphtheria5420417..13..351
Membranous.Croup..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever8312..2143
Continued Fever..................
Puerperal Fever..................
Cholera..................
Erysipelas22........2....
Measles141..2..11914
Whooping Cough31..1..121..
Influenza21......11..1
Diarrhœa64....1142..
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular54199611937152
Cancer15105......4101
Rheumatism61......542..
Respiratory Diseases561621532031241
Circulatorv Diseases6923955274722..
Nervous Diseases1899......135..
Other Diseases1431064 2147165744
Violence215..6281110..
Age44........22..
Total489130461012618623317581
Corresponding Totals in preceding year525110491061924123620287

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They numbered altogether 489, as compared with
525 in the previous year, and of these, 233 took place
in the Union Infirmary, 175 in the general and special
hospitals of the Metropolis, and 81 in the hospitals of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The relative mortality
in these institutions of persons from the several sub.
districts is as follows:—
1897 1898.
Clapham 2.3 per thousand living. 2.6 per thousand living.
Putney 2.3 „ „ „ 2.1
Streatham 1.8 „ „ „ 1.6 „
Tooting 2.4 3.2 „
Wandsworth 3.9 ,, ,, „ 2.9,, ,,