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Wandsworth 1900

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

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Sub.district of Putney and Roehampton.
In Table VIII. all deaths registered in the sub.district
are tabulated and compared with those of the previous
nine years. 38 deaths were registered compared with
28 during the previous year. The increase is chiefly
accounted for by the greater mortality from Measles.
The Zymotic death.rate was 1.6. The average
Zymotic death.rate during the last 10 years is 1.8.

Table: TABLE VIII.Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Jtoehampton Sub.District.

TABLE VIII.

Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Jtoehampton Sub.District.

Zymotic Mortality1 189118921 18931894189518961897189818991900
Influenza6106174510125
Puerperal Fever....2311..........
Small Pox....................
Measles....23121..14113
Scarlet Fever1..11............
Enteric Fever11232411....
Diphtheria....143224512
Whooping Cough817124..1771552
Diarrhoea and Dysentery410661062111916
Other Zymotic Diseases7....1............
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases21365028335438562838
Zymotic Death. rate1.11.92.61.4162.61.72.51.21.6
Death-rate for all Diseases .11.913.513.69.913112.211.212*312.911.5

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The corrected Zymotic death-rate was 2'06, and
the average corrected Zymotic death-rate for the last 10
years was 2'15.
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