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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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52
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Deaths in Outlying Institutions. 46 Deaths of which I have cognisance occurred
amongst parishioners outside the sub-district.
45 of these occurred in outlying institutions,
and one occurred in a cab-yard before the patient could be
removed to hospital.

Table: TABLE II.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE II.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.SexAgeInstitutions
Total.Males.Females.Under 1.From 1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Diphtheria42213....13
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever11....1......1
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever1..1..1....1..
Whooping Cough..................
Measles...................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases972..63621
Cancer532..23..41
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases2111..111..
Circulatory Diseases963..6335..
Nervous Diseases94515363..
Other diseases66..32133..
Violence..................
4630166261419206

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Six of these deaths were the result of diseases of an
infectious character. Three deaths from Diphtheria and
one from Scarlet Fever occurred in the hospitals of the
Asylums Board. One case of Diphtheria and one of
Enteric Fever occurred in general hospitals.
Nineteen deaths took place in the Union Infirmary,
20 in general and special hospitals, and six in the Asylums
Board Hospitals.