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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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Table: The following two tables, A and B, are inserted at the request of the medical officer of the Local Government Board to ensure a uniform method of classification over the entire Kingdom. The same information is given under different forms in the various other tables:— TABLE(A) TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Putney; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

The following two tables, A and B, are inserted at the request of the medical officer of the Local Government Board to ensure a uniform method of classification over the entire Kingdom. The same information is given under different forms in the various other tables:—

TABLE(A)

TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Putney; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; public institutions being shown as separateMortality from all causes at subjoined Ages(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.12345671 81 910111213141516171819202122
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
{Columns for Population and Births are in Table 2?.)Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
PUTNEY26872331178956Under 5.........1.....................141511.........152641105
5 upwds......4......2..............................233117680163
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Totals26872331178956Under 5.........1.....................141511.........2641105
5 upwds......4......2..............................233117680163
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
Deaths occurring outside the district among: persons belonging thereto.4968141812Under 5......2..........................................11...48
5 upwds......2......1...........................918...1738
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto.4............4...Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds...................................................1...214