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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 1898

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

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32
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Deaths in
Outlying
Institutions.
The next Table gives particulars of these
deaths, from which they are seen to be 130 in
number. They are classified according to causes
of deaths, age groups, and the character of the institution
in which they occurred. In the Union Infirmary there
were 61, in the general and special hospitals, 48, and in
the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board 21.
There wen* 110 of these deaths in 1897.

Table: TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.SexAgeInstitutions
Total.Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 63.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Scarlet Fever11....1......1
Diphtheria20146218....218
Enteric Fever312..3....21
Erysipelas2..2..112....
Measles1..1..1....1..
Whooping Cough11....1..1....
Influenza1..1....11....
Diarrhœa4313131..
Total Zymotic Diseases33201352627620
Tubercular Diseases19136..172136..
Cancer1046..5546..
Rheumatism1..1..1....1..
Respiratory Diseases16106..11597..
Circulatory Diseases23914..815167..
Nervous Diseases94544572..
Other Diseases1046..51361
Violence55....5....5..
Old Age422....422..
Totals130715998239614821