Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893
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Showing the total number of Deaths and their Causes, registered in the entire District during the seven years 1887-93, with the relative numbers of each Class of Disease:—
1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | ||
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Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Scarlet Fever | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 29 | |
Diphtheria | 20 | 53 | 30 | 15 | 22 | 36 | 54 | |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 17 | |
Typhus | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Enteric Fever | 10 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 14 | |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Erysipelas | 11 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 10 | |
Measles | 68 | 53 | 31 | 87 | 78 | 78 | 32 | |
Whooping Cough | 41 | 96 | 39 | 95 | 75 | 89 | 74 | |
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | 21 | 61 | 112 | 63 | |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 70 | 64 | 41 | 73 | 51 | 82 | 104 | |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 5 | .. | 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 | .. | |
Totals of Zymotic Class | 240 | 304 | 169 | 322 | 324 | 450 | 405 | |
Gout and Rheumatism | 26 | 18 | 14 | 33 | 16 | 21 | 20 | |
Cancer and other Tumours | 78 | 70 | 68 | 89 | 103 | 101 | 90 | |
Other constitutional diseases | 18 | 12 | 15 | 38 | 21 | 25 | 23 | |
Tubercular | 268 | 257 | 219 | 265 | 246 | 256 | 228 | |
Nervous | 292 | 298 | 282 | 294 | 287 | 302 | 295 | |
Circulatory | 142 | 160 | 146 | 150 | 180 | 185 | 179 | |
Respiratory | 330 | 357 | 302 | 473 | 510 | 453 | 488 | |
Digestive | 119 | 119 | 107 | 123 | 149 | 131 | 157 | |
Urinary | 52 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 55 | 79 | 69 | |
Generative | 4 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 21 | 18 | |
Locomotory | 1 | .. | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | |
Integumentary | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Premature Births, Low Vitality, and Malformation | 144 | 156 | 149 | 174 | 170 | 183 | 215 | |
Old Age | 97 | 96 | 103 | 104 | 95 | 95 | 114 | |
Violence | 39 | 48 | 48 | 66 | 54 | 61 | 59 | |
Illdefined and not specified | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | |
Totals | 1855 | 1964 | 1698 | 2213 | 2237 | 2385 | 2376 |