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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

Battersea 1896

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1896

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Table: TABLE XV. Sickness and Mortality amongst the Parish Poor during the year 1896.

TABLE XV. Sickness and Mortality amongst the Parish Poor during the year 1896.

ZYMOTIC OR EPIDEMIC DISEASES.Grand Totals of Cases and Deaths from all Diseases.
Battersea.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric & other Fevers.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever or Metria.Diarrhœa, Dysentery, or Cholera.Influenza.Other Zymotic Diseases.Total.
Cases...91261642119...94559353
Deaths...2......1.........1......4
OTHER DISEASES.
Battersea.Diseases of the Tubercular Class.Of Brain, Nerves, &c.Of Heart.Of Respiratory Organs.Of Digestive Organs.Of Kidneys.Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.Age.Violence.All other Diseases.Total.
Cases911402475211864128101205824223775
Deaths51161112132226

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The total number of cases attended was three thousand seven
hundred and seventy.five. The total of deaths while under care
was twenty.six, but this would arise from the more severe and,
therefore, more fatal cases being sent into the Union Infirmary,
where a great number of deaths occurred, as shewn in Table VIII.