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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 1906

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

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Table: Report of the Medical Officer of Health.Table XVIII. shows this mortality for the 10 years 1896-1905 in each of the sub-districts and in the whole Borough, and the decennial average, compared with the present year.TABLE XVIII.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table XVIII. shows this mortality for the 10 years 1896-1905 in each of the sub-districts and in the whole Borough, and the decennial average, compared with the present year.

TABLE XVIII.

Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.WandsworthBorough.
1896138151137115143142
1897142123109116156127
1898153128119138169142
1899152120140166160146
1900144146Il6178162143
1901130121123196129133
1902125128110126136126
1903107127108124101110
1904123137105172118123
190511310999148128118
Average122129116147140131
1906111128113146131125

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The Tables which follow are inserted at the request of the
Local Government Board and show in detail the deaths of infants
under one year arranged in monthly age periods, and from certain
diseases.
Table XIX. shows the deaths in the whole Borough, and the
six following Tables the deaths in each registration sub-district.
From notifiable diseases five deaths occurred, two from
Scarlet Fever, and three from Diphtheria; 16 from Measles, 28
from Whooping Cough, 269 from Diarrhæal diseases, 125 from
Premature Birth, 173 from Congenital defects or diseases, 42