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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 1893

Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893

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In the following Table the deaths properly belonging
to the district occurring in outlying institutions have been
arranged according to the character of the institution in
which they occurred and the sub-districts to which they
belong.

Table: TABLE IV.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IV.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox11............1
Scarlet Fever381741511..137
Diphtheria45179829..1431
Membranous-Croup..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever4..1....31..3
Continued Fever..................
Puerperal Fever1........11....
Cholera..................
Erysipelas62......46....
Measles11..........1..
Whooping Cough31..1..12l..
Influenza1........11....
Diarrhœa102......864..
Other Zymoyic Diseases2....2....1l..
Tubercular61169742536205
Cancer20111....8128..
Rheumatism2........22....
Respiratory Diseases52156812239103
Circulatory Diseases298..1..20272..
Nervous Diseases261011..1410106
Other Diseases8924926131742452
Violence2693617521..
Age146......814....
Total43114043612616120513888
Corresponding Totals in preceding year38410645542515419512465

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There were 431 such deaths, of which 205 occurred in
the Union Infirmary, 138 in the general and special
hospitals of the Metropolis, and 88 in those of the Asylums'
Board.
Adding these deaths to the 2,376 mentioned above, and
substracting the 205 that, as explained, ought to be