Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1906 and Previous Years.
Year. | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District | Deaths of Nonresidents registered in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District. | |||||
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Number. | Rate.* | Under 1 Year of Age. | At all Ages. | |||||||||
Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
1896 | 15,800 | 324 | 23.4 | 35 | 108 | 133 | 9.6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 146 | 10.6 |
1897 | 16,000 | 317 | 22.5 | 44 | 139 | 172 | 12.3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 184 | 13.2 |
1898 | 16,400 | 324 | 22.4 | 44 | 136 | 160 | 11.2 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 175 | 12.3 |
1899 | 16,700 | 366 | 24.8 | 51 | 139 | 160 | 10.9 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 177 | 12.0 |
1900 | 17,000 | 380 | 25.0 | 31 | 81 | 177 | 11.6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 190 | 12.6 |
1901 | 17,310 | 367 | 23.5 | 43 | 117 | 175 | 11.2 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 191 | 12.2 |
1902 | 17,838 | 364 | 22.9 | 40 | 109 | 171 | 10.7 | 14 | 5 | 29 | 195 | 12.2 |
1903 | 17,168 | 388 | 23.9 | 32 | 82 | 131 | 8.0 | 10 | 3 | 22 | 150 | 9.2 |
1904 | 16,997 | 377 | 22.8 | 37 | 98 | 154 | 9.3 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 166 | 10.0 |
1905 | 17,512 | 395 | 23.5 | 34 | 86 | 138 | 8.2 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 150 | 8.9 |
Averages for years 1896-1905. | 16,852 | 360 | 23.4 | 39 | 109 | 157 | 10.3 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 172 | 11.3 |
1906 | 17,983 | 434 | 25.2 | 45 | 103 | 226 | 13.0 | 70 | 68 | 14 | 172 | 10.0 |
* Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population, excluding residents at
Belmont Asylum and Metropolitan Asylum Board School, Banstead Road.
Note.—The deaths included in Column 7 of this Table are the whole of those registered during the
year as having actually occurred within the district or division. The deaths to be included in Column 12
are the number in Column 7, corrected by the subtraction of the number in Column 10 and the addition
of the number in Column 11.
By the term "Non-residents" is meant persons brought into the district on account of sickness or
infirmity, and dying in public institutions there; and by the term "Residents" is meant persons who
have been taken out of the district on account of sickness or infirmity, and have died in public institutions
elsewhere.
The "Public institutions" to be taken into account for the purposes of these Tables are those into
which persons are habitually received on account of sickness or infirmity, such as hospitals, workhouses
and lunatic asylums.
Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the District—
Sutton Hospital, Metropolitan Asylum Board's Ringworm School, and Belmont Asylum.
Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District—
Ensom Workhouse, Brookwood Asylum, and Cuddington Isolation Hospital.
Area of District in acres
(exclusive of area 1836
covered by water).
Total population at all ages 17,224, At
Number of inhabited houses 2,976 Census
Average number of persons per house 5.7 of 1901.
1906. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Membranous Croup. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | |||||||
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Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | House invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | |
January | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
February | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
March | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
April | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||||
May | 2 | 2 | 12 | 1 | ||||||||||
June | 1 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
July | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
August | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
September | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
October | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
November | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
December | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Total in 1906 | 26 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 64 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | ||||
Total in 1905 | 37 | 25 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||
Total in 1904 | 31 | 27 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Total in 1903 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Total in 1902 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | ||||
Total in 1901 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 12 | ||||
Total in 1900 | 127 | 78 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | ||||
Total in 1899 | 129 | 84 | 38 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||
Total in 1898 | 59 | 44 | 60 | 46 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||
Total in 1897 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Total in 1896 | 42 | 33 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |