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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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120 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

Table: TABLE VIII.Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality.

TABLE VIII.

Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality.

Diseases.189018911892189318941895189618971898189919001900
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected averaire.
Seven principal Epidemic Diseases./Small Pox..........................
Measles47103023725843417301.1..
Scarlet Fever ...253136111..1 6
Diphtheria101920208388014107..100
Typhus Enteric5636544342106.1
Whooping Cough3518282617135312'23279..21.4
Diarrhoea Cholera37254137242444488371607.9..
Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases13479127949246170103161128117..19
Other Zymotic Diseases11166034345811253326*403.1
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases14595187128126104181128194164,6716
Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000 population ......3.223.72.542.301.623.0223 032 32.2532
Total Deaths from all causes787780838820768798886838961959964. ,51.2
Percentage of Deaths from Epidemics to Deaths from all causes .17010.315115.6216.511.7820*4215.27.20*1816*16.28.4,7

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The zymotic death-rate was 2.25 per 1,000, compared
with 2 3 in 1899 and 3'03 in 1898, and 2.57 the
decennial average.
The above death-rate does not represent the true
rate for the parish as the deaths in the outlying institutions
required to be added, and those in internal
institutions not belonging to this parish subtracted.