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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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Table(B)

TABLE of populatlon, births, and ofnew cases of infectious sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1898, in the Wandsworth (sub-District of the Metropolitan sanitary District of Wandsworth; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics Public Institutions being shown as eparate localities.Population at all ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the sevaral Localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 1898.12345678910111234567891011
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
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Middlesex Lunatic Asylum1296....Under 5............................................
5 upwds....................1......................
Royal Hospital for Incurables291....Under 1............................................
5 upwds............................................
St. Peter's Hospital60....Under 5............................................
5 upwds............................................
Prison993....Under 5....1....................1................
5 upwds..1..............1......................
Patriotic Asylum for Girls316....Under 5............................................
5 upwds..48................1..7..................
The Boys' Home198....Under 5............................................
5 upwds..1......1............1..................
Workhouse752..132Under 5............................................
5 upwds..3................7......................
Rest of the Sub-District54195600111689Under 6..54642..2........2..4240....1..........
5 upwds11709714811••88..9360....26..........
Totals58101639171821Under 5..54652..2......-2..4241....1..........
5 upwds1223971..49....11..98..10160....26..........

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