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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 1894

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

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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

Table: TABLE IV.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

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.
Small-pox..................
Scarlet Fever128....22....12
Diphtheria35243224..431
Membrenous-Croup..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever31..1..112
Continued Fever..................
Puerperal Fever4....1..34....
Cholera..................
Erysipelas51......45....
Measles3......122..1
Whooping Cough1........1..1..
Influenza21......111..
Diarrhœa53..1..141..
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular431615..2120203
Cancer2093....8137..
Rheumatism41..1..222..
Respiratory Diseases379541182881
Circulatory Diseases416382222912..
Nervous Diseases46141....3120233
Other Diseases103208367324756..
Violence261014110521..
Age153......12141..
Total40512625631617519415853
Corresponding Totals in preceding year43114043612616120513888

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They numbered altogether 405, and of these 194 took
place in the Union Infirmary, 158 in the general and special
hospitals of London, and 53 in those of the Metropolitan
Asylums' Board.

Table: The relative proportions in the sub-districts is as follows:—

The relative proportions in the sub-districts is as follows:—

1893.1894.
Clapham3.0 per thousand living.2.7 per thousand living.
Putney2.3 ,, ,, ,,1.3 ,, ,, ,,
Streatham1.1 ,, ,, ,,1.3 ,, ,, ,,
Tooting4.9 „ ,, ,,2.7 ,, ,, ,,
Wandsworth3.0 ,, ,, ,,3.2 ,, ,, ,,