Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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The deaths in out-lying institutions are shown in the
next Table, and are arranged according to the respective
sub-districts to which they belong, and the institutions
in which they have occurred.
Number in whole Borough. | Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Tooting | Wandsworth. | Union Infirmary. | General and Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Measles | 5 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | ||||
Scarlet Fever | 13 | 3 | .. | 4 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | 13 | |
3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | .. | ||
26 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 1 | .. | .. | 26 | |||
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Typhus | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Enteric | 12 | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 12 | ||
Other Continued | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Epidemic Influenza | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | |
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Diarrhœa | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 3 | 1 | 5 | .. | |
Enteritis | 6 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | .. | .. | ||
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | ||
Other Septic Diseases | 6 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | |||||
Phthisis | 49 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 33 | 16 | .. | |
Other Tubercular Diseases | 11 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 6 | 6 | 1 | ||
Cancer, Malignant Disease | 23 | 11 | 2 | .. | .. | 10 | 9 | 14 | .. | |
Bronchities | 33 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 25 | 1 | ||||
Pneumonia | 26 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 1 | |||
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | |||
Alcoholism | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | ||||
9 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 8 | .. | |||
Premature Birth | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 5 | 3 | .. | ||
.. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | ||||
Heart Disease | 66 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 26 | 20 | 1 | ||
Accidents | 37 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 29 | .. | |
Suicides | 6 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 4 | .. | |
All other Causes | 38 | 14 | 52 | 8 | 52 | 77 | 86 | 1 | ||
Totals | 521 | 53 | 198 | 58 |