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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: TABLE II.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE II.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Totals.Sex.Ages.Institutions.
Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever1..1..1......1
Diphtheria835..8....26
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough1..1..1....1..
Measles......... .........
Other ZymoticDiseases211..1111..
TubercularDiseases76l..6134..
Cancer..................
Rheumatism..................
RespiratoryDiseases862..63341
CirculatoryDiseases11....1....1..
Nervous Diseases1..1..1....1..
Other Diseases261115115101313..
Violence60114115..
Totals6133282431621328

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There were 61 deaths in outlying institutions as
against 54 of the previous year, 33 were of males and 28
of females, being 54.7 and 45 3 per cent, respectively of
the total deaths.
In the "Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary
21 deaths or 34.4 per cent, of the total deaths occurred,
32 or 52 5 per cent, in the general and special hospitals
and 8 or 13.1 per cent, in the hospitals and institutions
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
8 or 13.1 per cent, were under 5 years of age and
16 or 26.2 per cent, above the age of 65 years.
The usual table of statistics of mortality is given in
Table III. on the next page.