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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 1897

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

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Table: TABLE I. Deaths of Battersea Parishioners in Public Institutions of the Metropolis.

TABLE I. Deaths of Battersea Parishioners in Public Institutions of the Metropolis.

Deaths of Parishionersin outlying Public Institutions.Totals.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Males.Females.Under 1 year.1 to 5 years.All under 5.5 to 15 years.15 to 25 years25 to 65 years.65 and upwards.Union Workhouse.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.County and other Lunatic AsylumsElsewhere.
DISEASE.
.—ZYMOTICS.Small Pox.............................................
Scarlatina4021195263172............40......
Diphtheria5623333363916...1......848......
Membranous Croup.............................................
Typhus Fever.............................................
Enteric1064...11216......541...
Continued Fever.............................................
Relapsing.............................................
Puerperal1...1...............1..................
Cholera.............................................
Erysipelas11.....................1...1.........
Measles22......22...............11......
Whooping Cough1...1...11...............1.........
Diarrhœa3123...3...............3.........
Other Zymotics.............................................
Total Zymotics11454601166772539......20931...
Rheumatic Fever3...3.........3............3.........
Ague.............................................
Phthisis3219131453321...324...5...
Tubercular1...1............1.........1.........
Respiratory1495325...18......12...11
Circulatory43241911256246232...63
Nervous63481511265437519...381
Cancer241410...............204222.........
Violence21183...33...3r41...13......8
All Other Diseases7240321952439324364131
Totals387226161368211845311712215210945414