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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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Ages at Death. Of the total deaths, 26.5 per cent. were of
infants under 1 year of age, and 24.0 per cent. of old
persons above 65 years.
Infantile Death
rate.
The death-rate of infants under 1 year of age
per 1,000 living at this age,that is per 1,000 births was
in each sub-district, as follows:—
Clapham 146 per 1,000
Putney 123 ,,
Streatham 123 ,,
Tooting 140 „
Wandsworth 146 „
Whole District 137 ,,
Registration London 164
Causes of
Death.
The relative number of deaths from the
various causes is stated in Table VI., zymotic disease
being given in greater detail. In the following table a
comparison is made with the corresponding deaths in the
preceding years.