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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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Social Position.—The proportion of deaths occurring in
the different social grades may be expressed as follows:—
Nobility and gentry .4 per cent.
Professional classes 8.6 ,,
Middle and trading classes 33.9 „
Industrial and labouring classes 57.1 „
Zymotic Mortality.—The following Table gives the
number of deaths from the different Zymotic Diseases
during the last ten years, with the Zymotic and general
death-rates.

Table: TABLE IV.Zymotic Mortality in Putney and llochampton Sub-district.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in Putney and llochampton Sub-district.

Zymotic Mortality.1884188518861887188818891890189118921893
Influenza................610
Puerperal Fever..........21..23
Small Pox1..................
Measles1442..210....2
Scarlet Fever....11..1..1..1
Enteric Fever1031..211112
Diphtheria..5112........14
Whooping Cough8118266881712
Diarrhoea and Dysentery849..4....4106
Other Zymotic Diseases..1812..17....
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases2818427161221213650
Zymotic Death-rate1.91.22.490.441.00.731.11.11.92.6
Death-rate for all Diseases13.711.211.812.511.711.112.411.913.513.6