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Wandsworth 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The next Table shows the death-rate from zymotic diseases,
including Influenza, for the whole Borough and for the separate
sub-districts in the Borough, for the year 1901, as well as for
the 10 years preceding.
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham | 2.2 | 3.01 | 3.43 | 2.4 | 2.86 | 3.12 | 2.35 | 3.33 | 1.85 | 2.09 | |
| Putney | 1.4 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 1.65 | 1.95 | 1.02 |
| Streatham | 2.2 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.29 | 1.7 | 1.14 |
| Tooting | 2.39 | 2.28 | 2.95 | 3.56 | 2.12 | 3.15 | 1.00 | 2.27 | 2.17 | 2.84 | 3.38 |
| Wandsworth | 2.3 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 2.64 | 2.03 | 3.96 | 2.8 | 3.59 | 2.73 | 2.25 | 2.20 |
| Borough | 2.17 | 3.13 | 3.00 | 2.28 | 2.16 | 2.98 | 2.22 | 2.90 | 2.55 | 2.10 | 1.81 |
Putney had the lowest death-rate from zymotic diseases
during the year, and Tooting the highest. With the exception
of Clapham and Tooting, which show a perceptible increase,
all the other sub-districts show a decrease. In Clapham the
mortality from these diseases was in 1900 exceptionally low,
the total amounting to 94 only, or 47 under the corrected decennial
average, and in 1901 the number of deaths was 108, 14
above last year, but 50 under the average.
The increase in the mortality in iqoi is not therefore serious,
and was almost wholly accounted for by the increase in the
number of deaths from Diarrhoea.
The high rate in Tooting was due chiefly to the large increase
in the number of deaths from Diarrhoea, 29 deaths having
occurred, compared with 37 in 1900.
On the whole, the Zymotic death-rate is not high, and is
considerably under the average, notwithstanding the enormous