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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1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | |
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Small Pox | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlot Fever | 3 | .. | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | .. | |||
Diphtheria | 8 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 14 |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 |
Measles | 33 | 3 | 11 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 32 | 20 | 26 |
Whooping Cough | 15 | 25 | 34 | 25 | 28 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 96 | 16 |
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 22 | 97 | 20 |
Diarrhœa and Dysentery | 18 | 16 | 25 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 23 |
Hydrophobia | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 12 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | .. |
Total deaths from Zymotic Disease | 95 | 61 | 84 | 100 | 84 | 64 | 67 | 96 | 108 | 114 |
Zymotic Death-rate | 2.3 | 1.49 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.53 | 2.19 | 2.41 | 2.5 |
Death-rate from all Diseases | 13.7 | 12.4 | 12.9 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.6 | 13.88 | 13.63 | 13.66 | 13.19 |