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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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74
Zymotic
Mortality.
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The deaths resulting from the principal
epidemic diseases, occurring within the sub-

Table: TABLE V.Zymotic Mortality in the Sub- District of Streatham.

TABLE V.

Zymotic Mortality in the Sub- District of Streatham.

188718881889189018911892189318941895189618971898
Small Pox........................
Measles21..5123621213526726
Scarlet Fever451..122232....
Diphtheria740611751096116
Enteric Fever2114233410333
Typhus Fever1......................
Whooping Cough62293419.181517135919
Epidemic Diarrhœa16138151015341227213729
Other Zymotic Diseases7321355571124
Influenza........2135161036121516
Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases647432799510682759210684103
Zymotic Death-rate1.61.70.81.81.71.l0.60.91.71.91.41.7
Death-rate from all Diseases11.611.410.211.511.612.412.410.011.311.09.711.7

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In this class 103 deaths were recorded, the number
being higher than during the previous year. This
excess is due to Measles and Whooping Cough, both
being diseases which are not governed by the notification
clauses of the Public Health (London) Act 1891.
The percentage of deaths from Zymotic diseases
upon the mortality from all causes was 14-5, compared
with 14r8 during the year 1897.