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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Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | Whole District. | Corresponding figures in 1892. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 6 | 2 | 10 | .. | 11 | 29 | .. | |
Scarlatina | 303 | 107 | 313 | 93 | 440 | 1256 | 887 | |
Diphtheria | 108 | 69 | 65 | 5 | 151 | 398 | 242 | |
Membranous Croup | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 33 | 17 | ||
Typhus | Fevers. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enterio | 31 | 8 | 23 | 7 | 39 | 108 | 86 | |
Continued | 2 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 11 | |
Relapsing | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Puerperal | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 13 | |
Cholera | .. | . . | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Erysipelas | 84 | 21 | 66 | 8 | 194 | 373 | 274 | |
Totals | 547 | 212 | 483 | 114 | 868 | 2224 | 1530 |
Taking now the deaths from each disease—