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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 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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District.
bination with some other cause of ill-defined nature,
and also deaths certified as from,"
Epidemic Enteritis
Zymotic Enteritis
Epidemic Diarrhoea
Summer Diarrhoea
Dysentery and Dysenteric Cholera
Cholera Nostras (in the absence of Asiatic Cholera.)
"Under the heading of Enteritis are to be included
those certified as from " Gastro-Enteritis," " MucoEnteritis,"
and "Gastric Catarrh."
These instructions if carried out generally will be of
great value for comparative purposes.
The following Table shows the Zymotic death-rate
for the whole district for the last 3 years.

Table: TABLE XIII.

TABLE XIII.

Death-rate per 1,000.
1898.1899.1900.
Diarrhœa-.95.92.72
Diphtheria and Croup.44.32.18
Whooping Cough.4.30.20
Scarlet Fever.08.033.073
Influenza.37.59.4
Enterio Fever.07.08.12
Measles.52.27.37

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Scarlet Fever, Enteric Fever, and Measles are
slightly higher than in 1899, while Diarrhoea, Diphtheria,
Whooping Cough and Influenza are lower.