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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 vii.
Cases of Sickness amongst the Parish Poor under the treatment of the District Medical Officers, with the deaths from each class of diseases, during
the year ended 31st December, 1893.
| SUB-DISTRICTS. | total cases of sickness treated in each SUB-DISTRICT. | total deaths in each sub-district | 1.— Small Pox. | 2. —Measles. | 3.—Scarlatina. | 4.—Diphtheria. | 5.—Whooping Cough. | 6.—Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | 7.—Influenza. | 8.— Fever. | 9.—Erysipelas. | 10.—Puerperal Fever. | 11.—Lung Diseases, Except Phthisis. | 12.—Phthisis. | 13.—Hydrocephalus, Atrophy Scrofula and Infantile Convulsions. | 14.—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth. | 15.—Other Diseases. | 16,-Age. | ||||||||||||||||
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| CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | CASES | DEATHS | |||
| STREATHAM | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| District 1. | 218 | 3 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 24 | 1 | 2 | .. | 6 | .. | 6 | .. | 145 | 2 | 18 | .. |
| District 2. | 147 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 120 | 1 | 3 | l |
| Whole District | 365 | 5 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 9 | .. | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | 36 | 1 | 2 | .. | 7 | .. | 6 | .. | 265 | 3 | 21 | l |
** The ratio of deaths to cases treated is 1.4 per cent.