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Wandsworth 1904

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

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Table: Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Name of Borough.Death-rate per 1,000 living from Diarrhœa.
1901.1902.1903.
Paddington.81.51.57
Kensington.66.45.54
Hammersmith1.02.55.81
Fulham1.31.891.13
Chelsea.52.53.42
Westminster.38.29.41
St. Marylebone.78.50.65
Hampstead.32.14.04
St. Pancras.83.35.34
Islington.59.29.32
Stoke Newington.49.34.25
Hackney.82.43.39
Holborn.71.32.37
Finsbury1.20.68.99
City of London.30.08.25
Shoreditch1.311.081.23
Bethnal Green.90.46.86
Stepney1.00.78.90
Poplar1.26.64.91
Southwark1.08.80.95
Bermondsey.94.67.71
Lambeth.97.58.52
Battersea1.20.56.53
WANDSWORTH.67.39.39
Camberwell.79.55.54
Deptford.94.67.64
Greenwich.78.46.67
Lewisham.81.48.23
Woolwich.84.50.36
London.86.53.64

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P. CALDWELL SMITH,
Medical Officer of Health.
The Committee carefully considered the question submitted to
it as to the advisability of establishing depots in this Bciough for the
supply of sterilized milk, and reported to the Council as follows:—
It is admitted that there is annually a considerable death-rate
from Infantile or Epidemic Diarrhoea in the summer months, hence
the natural suggestion that the use of sterilized milk would prevent
or lessen this mortality.