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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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Parish of Tooting. 89
TABLE VI.

Table: Zymotic Mortality,

Zymotic Mortality,

189018911892189318941895189618971898
Small Pox..................
Measles....7..9211*3*16*
Scarlet Fever....11852*60*94*76*41*
Diphtheria..........118*176*192*110*
Typhus Fever................
Enteric Fever1......11......
Whooping Cough210..5316*22
Epidemic Diarrhœa3..44155614
Other Zymotic Diseases, including Influenza2..1465*23..4
Total Deathsfrom Zymotic Class91413311311891295*278*187*
Zymotic Death-rate1.62.02.45.05.l†2.5†2.8+l.0†3.2†
Death-rate from all causes18.616024.821.118.l†20.5†14.2†12.2†18.4†

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* Includes deaths of Non-Parishioners in Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Hospital (Fountain). See Table III.
t Corrected Statistics.
Prevalence of in- The following Table "B" classifies the
fectious Disease, notifications received during the year relative
to cases of infectious disease, and also indicates the
number of cases removed to isolation hospitals.
140 notifications were received during the year, 35
were of Scarlet Fever, 78 of Diphtheria, one of Membranous
Croup, five of Enteric, two of Puerperal,
and 19 of Erysipelas. 106 cases were removed to
hospital.
Scarlet Fever. 35 cases occurred during the year under
report, compared with 31 during the year
1897. 27 of the cases were removed to hospital. None
of the cases were fatal.