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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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Inquests. Eleven deaths were referred to the Coroners,
and in five cases he deemed inquests necessary, with the
following verdicts :—
Natural Causes Syncope 2
Asphyxia, from Stoppage of
Air Passage 1
—3
Violence—
Accidental Suffocation 1
Murder Haemorrhage of Umbilicus 1
—2
Total 5
Zymotic Mortality. The deaths from zymotic disease will be
seen upon reference to Table V.
TABLE V.
Zymotic Mortality,
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
Smell Pox
• •
• •
• •
• •
• •
Measles
6
1
• •
7
• •
Scarlet Fever
1
• •
• •
1
18
Typhus Fever
• •
• •
• •
• •
• •
Enteric Fever
• •
l
• •
• •
• •
Whooping Cough
3
2
• •
• •
5
Epidemic Diarrhoea
1
3
• •
4
4
Other Zymotic Diseases
including Influenza
1
2
4
1
4
Total Deaths from
Zymotic Diseases
12
9
14
13
31
Zymotic Death-rate
2.4
1.8
2.0
2.1
5.0
Death-rate from allDiseases
13.16
18.6
16.03
24.8
21.1