Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1895
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The nine deaths recorded as having occurred "elsewhere"
are here definitely located:
Male Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea.
,, Wandsworth Creek.
,, On way to St. George's Hospital.
„ Wandsworth Road.
,, River Thames.
,, ,,
,, ,,
„ River Lea.
Female Omnibus—London Bridge.
In all five hundred and fifty-six deaths, twenty-six more
than in 1894, occurred in public institutions and "elsewhere,"
of whom a large majority were adults. Of these two hundred
and thirty-four took place in the Wandsworth and Clapham
Union Infirmary and the Workhouse, two hundred and twentyfive
in the General and Special Hospitals of the Metropolis,
fifty in the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals for infectious
diseases, thirty-eight in the various Lunatic Asylums, and nine
"elsewhere " as detailed above.
Tables 11., III., and IV., give in tabular form the weekly
returns of the District Registrars of Births and Deaths for East
and West Battersea respectively, and include the deaths of all
persons within the parish and in public institutions, whether
parishioners or not. They shew the incidence of births and
deaths at the various periods of the year, being grouped in
quarters for that purpose, with additional particulars as to
causes of death to be found in Table IV.