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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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139
Deaths in Out-lying
Institutions.
43 deaths of residents in this subdistrict
occurred in out-lying institutions
in London. This number is slightly below that
recorded during the previous year. If these deaths are
added to those which occurred within the district, it gives
a total of 299, and a death-rate of 15'9 per 1,000 per
annum.

Table: TABLE II.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE II.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions .
Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 6o.6o and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospital.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever422..4......4
Diphtheria936..81..l8
Enteric Fever11....1..1....
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Tubercular Diseases954..8163..
Cancer1..1..1....1..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases633..336....
Circulatory Diseases..................
Nervous Diseases11......11....
Other Diseases954153441
Violence321..3....3..
4322211339181213

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General Mortality.—In Table III. I have classified all
the deaths occuring in this sub-district, according to their
cause, under the different headings of sex, age, and social
position.
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