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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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Table: The following Table gives particulars as to these deaths. They were 140 in number, as compared with 106 last year, and of these 60 occurred in the Union Infirmary, 50 in the general and special hospitals of the Metropolis, and 30 in those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board:—TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying District.

The following Table gives particulars as to these deaths. They were 140 in number, as compared with 106 last year, and of these 60 occurred in the Union Infirmary, 50 in the general and special hospitals of the Metropolis, and 30 in those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board:—

TABLE III.

Deaths in Outlying District.

DISEASES.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox1..1..l......1
Scarlet Fever17710116....116
Diphtheria17611215....413
Enteric Fever..................
Erysipelas21l..112....
Measles11....1....1..
Whooping Cough1..l..1..1....
Influenza..................
Diarrhœa21l........2..
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases1613....151115..
Cancer1174..9265..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases15411168114..
Circulatory Diseases826..358....
Nervous Diseases10731..128..
Other Diseases24141081061212..
Violence96316218..
Age633..••66....
Totals1107268169232605030