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Wandsworth 1894

Thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District being for the year ended 25th of March 1895

Published
1895
Author
Orr, William. Y., Field, Oliver., Sutton, F. F., de Lisle Brock, C., Smith, P. Caldwell.
Pages
221
Tables
121

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    The Board of Works for the Wandsworth District. LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, Showing the year in which they go out of office.
    PARISHES.NAMES.ADDRESSES.
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    LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD—continued.
    PARISHES.NAMES.ADDRESSES.
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    RETURN showing the Number of Attendances of Members at the Board and Committee Meetings for the year ended 25th March 1895.
    NAMES OF MEMBERS.No. of Board Meetings attended.No. of Special Board Meetings attended.No. of Meetings of Committees of the whole Board attended.No. of Finance Committee Meetings attended.No. of General Purposes Committee Meetings attended.No. of General Purposes Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.No. of Sanitary Committee Meetings attended.No. of , Local Committee Meetings attended.No. of Local Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.No. of Streatham Special (Tramways) Committee Meetings attended.Total Number of Meetings attended.REMARKS.
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    NAMES OF MEMBERS.No. of Board Meetings attended.No. of Special Board Meetings attended.No. of Meetings of Committees of the whole Board attended.No. of Finance Committee Meetings attended.No. of General Purposes Committee Meetings attended.No. of General Purposes Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.No. of Sanitary Committee Meetings attended.No. of , Local Committee Meetings attended.No. of Local Committee Sub-Committee Meetings attended.No. of Streatham Special (Tramways) Committee Meetings attended.Total Number of Meetings attended.REMARKS.
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    LIST OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.
    Names.Offices.Addresses.Salaries.
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    LIST OF OFFICERS— Continued.
    Parishes.Names.Offices.Salaries.
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    ORDERS OF APPORTIONMENT. The following Orders of Apportionment of the estimated cost of paving new roads have been made by the Board during the year, viz. :—
    Parish.Date of Order.Name of Road.Amount of Order.
    £s.d.
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    The following Orders of Apportionment of the excess of the actual over tho estimated cost of paving new roads have been made by tho Board during the year, viz:—
    Parish.Date of Order.Date of Original Order.Name of Road.Amount of Order.
    £s.d.
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    The following Orders of Apportionment of the cost of executing necessary works of repair upon roads not repairable by the Board have been made by the Board during the year under the provisions of section 3 of the Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1890 (53 & 54s Vic., cap. 66), viz.:—
    Parish.Date of Order.Name of Road.Amount of Order.
    £s.d.
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    NEW ROADS. The following applications relating to the formation of new roads in this District have been made to the London County Council during the past year:—
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    RE-NAMING STREETS AND RE-NUMBERING HOUSES. The following orders relating to this District have been issued by the London County Council during the past year, viz.;—
    Parish.Date of OrderName of Street and Nature of Order.
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    PARTICULARS OF NEW SEWERS.
    PARISHES.LOCALITIESLengths& Sizes.—Feet Lineal.
    18in. Pipe Sewer15in. Pipe Sewer12in. Pipe Sewer9in. Pipe Sewer
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    PRIVATE DRAINS. The following are the particulars of the private drains which have been constructed by the Board during the past year, the cost of which has been paid by the persons for whom the work was executed:—
    PARISHES.No.of Drains.No. of Houses. &c., drained thereby.Lengths and sizes—feet lineal.Total lengths, — feet lineal.
    18-in.15-in.12-in.9-in.6-in.4-in.
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    HIGHWAYS The following are the particulars of the quantities of the materials used in the repairs of the roads and footpaths within the District during the past year, viz :—
    MATERIALS.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Total. cube yards.
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    The total length of road repaired by the Board is now 121¾ miles, showing an increase of about 3½ miles during the year. The following are the lengths in each parish:—
    PARISH.M.F.Y.
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    The following sums have been expended in paving repairs, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    The following alterations and additions to pavements have been made at the cost of private owners, viz.
    £s.d.
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    £s.d.
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    The detail of the account is as follows, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    The following are the particulars of the cost of maintenance of the stable establishment for the year, showing the keep of horses, including labour and expenses of every description, viz.:—
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.
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    Tlie cost of the various paving works carried out during the past year was as follows, viz.: —
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.
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    Daily Cost.
    £s.d.
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    The Board's steam roller has been worked on 246 days, made up as follows, viz.—
    Public Roads.New Roads.Total.
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    The cost of working the roller during this period has been as follows, viz.—
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Daily Cost.£s.d.
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    PARISH OF WANDSWORTH. During the past year the following new roads have been adopted by the Board, and the cost of paving them paid by the owners of the property abutting thereon, viz.:
    Name of Road.Length in yards.
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    The total expenses incurred during the year in the collection and disposal of the refuse are as follows, viz.:-
    £s.d.
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    ROAD WATERING. The details of road watering during the past year are set forth in the following tabular statement:—
    PARISH.Length of Road Watered.Expenditure.
    By Water Company.Horse Hire.New Carts, Vans, and Standposts.Water, Labour, Pumping, and Repairs to Pumps, Carts, &c.Total Expenses.
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    NEW BUILDINGS.
    PARISH.No of Notices Received.No. of Houses.Additions to Houses, &c.Stabling, Warehouses, Shops and other Buildings.No. of Churches, Chapels. Schools, and Additions to same.Total number of Buildings.
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    DETAILS OF LIGHTING.
    PARISH.Wandsworth and Putney Gas Company.(a) South Metropolitan Gas Company.Mitcham Gas Company.Brentford Gas Company.Total Number of Lamps in each Parish.
    Number of Lamps at £3 11 0.By meter at 2s. 6d. per 1000 feet.Total NumberNumber of Lamps at £3 13 9.Number of 1 Lamps at £3 3 9.Number of Lamps at £5 12 0.Number of Lamps at £3 4 9.By meter at 2s. 3d. per 1000 feet.Total Number.Number of Lamps at £4 4 0.Number of Lamps at £3 7 6. (b)By meter at 3s. 8d. per 1000 feet.Total Number.Number of Lamps at £3 14 5.
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    SCHOOL BOARD PRECEPTS. The following are the amounts of the Precepts of the School Board for London paid by this District (omitting the Parish of Battersea):—
    £s.d.d.
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    RATES. The following table shows the amount in the £ of the respective rates therein mentioned which have been levied by the Overseers of the several Parishes in the District during the last five years, viz.:—
    PARISH.Year.Poor Rate.General Rate.Sewers Rate.Lighting Rate.Totals.
    S.d.S.d.S.d.S.d.S.d.
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    CENSUS RETURNS. The following are the particulars of the last three returns as regards population, and the last two returns as regards houses:—
    PARISH.Population.Number of Houses.
    In 1871.In 1881.In 1891.Inhabited 1881.Uninhabited 1881.Inhabited 1891.Uninhabited 1891.
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    RATEABLE VALUE AND AREA OF DISTRICT. The rateable value and area of the several parishes in the District are as follows:—
    PARISH.Value as per Valuation List, April 5th, 1894.Value as per Valuation List, April 5th, 1895.Area.
    Acres.
    ££
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    STATEMENT OF CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO DURING THE YEAR ENDED 25th MARCH, 1895.
    Dates of Contracts.Names and Addresses of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.
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    STATEMENT OF CONTRACTS-continued.
    Dates or Contracts.Names and Addresses of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.
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    STATEMENT OF CONTRACTS-continued.
    Dates of Contracts.Names and Addresses of Contractors.Nature of Contracts.
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    ESTABLISHMENT EXPENDITURE
    £s.d.
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    MONEY OWING TO BOARD.
    1895. March 25th.£s.d.
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    MONEY OWING BY BOARD.
    1895. March 25th.£s.d.
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    Receipts and Payments for the
    March 25th, 1894.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Year ended 25th March, 1895.
    March 25th, 1895.PAYMENTS.£s.d.£s.d.
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    TABLE I.
    BIRTHS.RATES.
    Sub-Districts.Males.Females.Total.Birth-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
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    The following Table shows the distribution in the sub-districts:— TABLE II.
    DEATHS.Uncorrected Death-rate. ,Corrected Death-rate.
    Sub-Districts.Males.Females.Total.
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    The following Table shows the rates for the last 10 years:— TABLE III. Birth-rates, Death-rates, and rales of Natural Increase in the entire district durinq the ten years 1884-93 inclusive.
    Years.Birth-rate per 1000.Death-rate per 1000.Rate of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE IV. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.TootingWandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
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    The relative proportions in the sub-districts is as follows:—
    1893.1894.
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    The next Table gives interesting information as to the density of population, and the relative mortality of the industrial and other classes in each sub-district:— TABLE V.
    Sub-District.Population, 1894.Percentage of Total Population.Number of persons to 1 acre.Relative mortality of Industrial and other classes.
    Industrial classes.Other classes.
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    TABLE VI.
    POPULATION Census 1891 156,931Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. &c., in the District.Sub-Districts.Shx.Age.Social Position.
    Clapham— Population, 46,380 Area in acres. 1,233Putney—Population, 19,158 Area in acres, 2,176Streatham - Population, 49,084 Area in acres, 2.904Tooting—Population, 5,676 Area in acres, 561Wandsworth —Population, 55,175 Area in acres. 2,433Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 45 years.From 45 to 65 years.From 65 to 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants. Bankers, &cMiddle and Trading Class, Shopmen. Clerks, &cIndustrial and Labouring Classes.
    Estimated Population in middle of 1894, 175,473
    CAUSES OF DEATH
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    Infantile Death rate. This rate was as follows :—
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    TABLE VII. Showing the total number of deaths and their causes, registered in the entire District during the eight years 1887-94, with the relative numbers of each class of disease:—
    18871888188918901891189218931894
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    TABLE VIII.
    1888188918901891189218931894
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    TABLE IX. Number of Notifications received daring the year.
    Clapham.Putney.Streatham,Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole District.
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    Number of Notifications received each year since the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act: —
    18901891189218931894
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    TABLE X.
    INQUESTS.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Whole Distric
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    TABLE XII.
    SUB-DISTRICTS.Number of Births Returned from 1st January to 31st December 1893Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Vaccination.Had Small-pox.Dead Unvaccinated.Postponed by Medical Certificate.Removed to District, Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised.Removed to places unknown, or which cannot be reached; and cases not having been found.
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    Averages of the Monthly Analyses of Water in 1894. The numbers relate to parts per 100,000.
    Temperature in Centegrade degrees.Total Solid Matter.Organic Carbon.Organic NitrogenAmmonia.Nitrogen as Nitrates and Nitrites.Total Combined Nitrogen.Chlorine.Total Hardness.Proportional amount of Organic elements, that in the Kent Companies Water during the 9 years ending 1876 being taken as unity.Number of Microbe Colonies developed in each cubic centimetre of water.
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    TABLE XIII. Summary of Sanitary Operations in the entire District during the year 1894.
    Clapham.PutneyStreatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Total.
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    Table 1. gives a comparison of these rates with those of the last ten years :— TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEAR.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE II. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    CLAPHAM.Population (Census), 1891 43,698 Estimated Population in middle of 1894. 46,380Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 45 years.From 45 to 65 years.From 65 to 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    TABLE TABLE OF DEATHS during the Tear 1891, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Clapham; classified according to Diseases ( A ) Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.12345678910111213141516171819202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
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    TABLE III. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASES.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Total.Males.Females.Under 1.1 to 65.65 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
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    The proportion of the deaths at the various ago groups to the total deaths was as follows:—
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    The proportion in the various social grades was as follows:—
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    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Clapham.
    1885188618871888188918901891189218931894
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    The following table gives the number of notifications of infectious diseases received under the Public Health Act, with the number removed to hospital and the number of deaths. TABLE V.
    Number of Cases Notified.Number of Patients removed to Hospital.Number died in Hospital.Number died at Home.Total Deaths.
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    I give the numbers reported in each month:—
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    The number reported each month is given below:—
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    TABLE TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, (B) coming to the knowledge of the. Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Clapham; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
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    TABLE VI.
    18841885188618871888188918901891189218931894Number above corrected decennial average.Number below corrected decennial average.
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    Forty inquests have been held during the year, the following being the verdicts:—
    Natural CausesMales.FemalesTotal.
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    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rate.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rate,Rate of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    DISEASES.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Males.Females.Under i.i to 6o.6o and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospital.
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    The relative percentage of deaths under the different social positions were as follows :—
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    Ages at Death.—The proportion of deaths at different ages was as folic ws :—
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    TUTNEY.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease. Ac., in the Sub-District.Sex,Age.Social Position.
    Population (Census), 189117,771.Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 & under 45 years.From 45 & under 65 years.From 65 & under 75 years,75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle andTrading Class' Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    Estimated Popula-lation in middle of 1894,19,158.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    The following two tables, A and B, are inserted at the request of the medical officer of the Local Government Board to ensure a uniform method of classification over the entire Kingdom. The same information is given under diffierent forms in the various other tables : — table TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Putxey; classified according to Diseases ( A ) Ages, and Localities
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    TABLE IV. Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Roehampton Sub-district.
    Zymotic Mortality.1885188618871888188918901891189218931894
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    The following table gives us useful information in regard to the number of infectious cases' notified to me during the year, the number of such cases removed to hospital and the mortality resulting from them :—
    No. of cases notified.No. of patients removed to Hospital.No. died in Hospital.No. died at Home.Total deaths.
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    TABLE VI. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.188918901891189218931894
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    with the exception of cancer. There were double the number of deaths from this cause than during 1889.
    Inquests.Male.Female.Total.
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    Sub-district of Putney and Roehampton.
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    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    YEARS.Births.Birth-rates.Deaths from all Causes.Death-rates.Rates of Natural Increase.
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    STREATHAM.Totals.Sex.Ages.Institutions.
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.Total under 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.F rom 25 to 6S years.65 years and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
    DISEASE.
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    STREATHAM.Total Deaths from each Class Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Population Census, 1891Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.Total under 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 45 years.From 45 to 65 years.From 65 & under 75 years.75 years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen. Clerks, 4c.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    Estimated Population,1894 49,084
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    table TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1891, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Strfatham ; classified according to Diseases ( A ) Ages, and Localities
    Names op Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities.NORl'Ality FROM ALL CAUSES, at SUBJOINED AGES.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.123456789101112131415161718ly202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.M easles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Hronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.A11 other Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    {Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
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    TABLE TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS ( B) coming to the knowledge of the Medical, Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Strkatham classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Locaiities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all agesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed From their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 189412345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranois Croup.FeversCholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    The annexed Table contrasts the infantile death-rate for the past four years.
    No. of deaths of infants under 1 year of age.Rate per 1,000 of births registered.
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    Zymotic Mortality in the Sub-District of Streatham.
    1885188618871888188918901891189218931894
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    TABLE V.
    DISEASES.Number of cases notifiedNumber of patients removed to Hospital.Number died at Hospital.Number died at Home.Total deaths in Hospital and at Home.
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    TABLE VI. Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.
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    Twenty four inquests were held, sixteen upon males and eight upon females, with the following verdicts:—
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    TABLE VII.
    Age.Males.Females.Total.
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    Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
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    The causes of death were as follows:—
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    TABLE 1. Birth and Death Rates.
    Years.Births.Birth-Rates.Deaths from all causes.Death-ratesRates of Natural Increase
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
    TOOTING. 1894. Diseases.Totals.Sex.Ages.Institutions.
    Males.Females.Under 1 year.From 1 to 5 years.Total under 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 to 65 years.65 years & upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    TOOTING.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c , in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position
    Population 5784 (Census) 1891,Males.Females.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5 Years.From 5 to 15 Years.From 15 to 25 Years.From 25 and under 45 YearsFrom 45 and under 65 YearsFrom 65 and under 75 years75 Years and Upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers Ac.Middle and Trading Class Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial A Labouring Classes.
    Estimated Population in middle of 1894 5676
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    Table TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Tooting; classified according to Diseases (A) Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.)Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At all Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.12345678910111213141516171819202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriamembranousCroup.Typhus.Fevers.Puerperal.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
    Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(i)
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    The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
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    table TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, (B) coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary sub-District of Tooting; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all agesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New cases of Sickness in each locality coming to the knowledge of the medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1894.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.FeversPuerperal.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsing.Puerperal.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    Social Position. The following table shews the proportion of deaths in the several social grades:
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    TABLE I. Birth and Death Rates.
    Years.Births.Birth-rate.*Deaths from all causes.Death-rate.Rate of Natural Increase.
    Corrected.Un-corrected.
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    TABLE II. Deaths in Out-lying Institutions.
    DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
    Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.GO and upwards.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums' Board Hospitals.
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    In Table III. the causes of death are classified under six main heads, and the number of deatl s under each head as well as the per centage to the total deaths, were as follows:—
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    TABLE III. STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.
    WANDSWORTH.Total Deaths from each Class of Disease, &c., in the Sub-District.Sex.Age.Social Position.
    Population (Census), 189146,720Males.Females.Under 1 year. From 1 to 5 years.From 5 to 15 years.From 15 to 25 years.From 25 and under 45 years.From 45 and under 65 years.From 65 and under 75 years75 and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, Ac.Middle and Trading Class. Shopmen, Clerks, Ac.Industrial and Labouring Classes.
    Estimated Population in middle of 189455,175
    CAUSES OF DEATH.
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    TABLE OF DEATHS during the year 1894, in the Wandsworth Sub-District of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of (A) Wandsworth; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localitiesadoptedforthe purposeoftheseStatistics; publicinstitutionsbeingshownasseparatelocalities.(Columns for Population and Births arc in Table B.)Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At All AgesUnder 1 Year1 and under 5.5 and under 1515 and under 2525 and under 60 60and upwards.12345678910111213141516171819202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.ErysipelasMeasles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.AguePhthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.Allother Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
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    TABLE TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1894, in the Wandsworth Sub-District of tlu Metropolitan Sanitary District of Wandsworth ; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all AgesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census 1891.Estimated in middle of 1804.12345678910111234567891011
    SmallpoxScarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small PoxScarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    TABLE IV. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
    DISEASES.188418851886188718881889189018911892189318941894
    No. above corrected average.No. below corrected averaee.
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    Number of Cases of Diphtheria notified with Number of Deaths.
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    Number of Cases of Membranous Croup notified with Number of Deaths.
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    The following are the death-rates per 1000 of population from zymotic diseases, inclusive of deaths in outlying institutions, in 1893 and 1894.
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    Parish of Wandsworth. 109 TABLE VI. NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
    DISEASE.No. cases notified.No. patients removed to Hospital..No. died in Hospital.No. died at Home.Total deaths in Hospital and at Home.
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    TABLE VII. MONTHLY NOTIFICATION'S OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
    January.February.March.April.May.June.July.August.September.October.November.December.
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    TABLE VIII. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
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    Table IX. shows the number of deaths at various age periods TABLE IX.
    Age.Males.Females.Total.
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    TABLE X.
    Social Position.Total Deaths.Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
    1894.Decennial average.1891.Decennial Average.
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    TABLE XI.
    Males.Females.Total.
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    I.—Dairy Products.
    Articles submitted.Nature and Amount of Impurity.