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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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Zymotic Diseases.
The total number of deaths from the above was 128, or nine less
than the decennial average. The following table shows the total
deaths from these diseases, and the proportion of these to deaths
from all causes for the preceding 10 years, as compared with the
year 1893.
The zymotic death rate was 2.54 per 1,000, 1.2 per 1,000 below
last year, and 112 per 1,000 below the corrected decennial average.
If influenza, which only entered into these calculations in 1892,
be excluded, the zymotic death-rate would only be 2.26 per 1,000.
A correction has again to be made as the deaths from these
diseases in out-lying institutions required to be added; the number
who died in these institutions was 38, and this added to 128,
gives a total of 166, giving a death rate of 3.3 per 1,000, or if
influenza be excluded of 3.02 per 1,000.