Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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.
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:—
1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | ||
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ZYMOTIC. | Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 29 | 57 | |
Diphtheria | 20 | 53 | 30 | 15 | 22 | 36 | 54 | 91 | |
Membranous Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 17 | 13 | |
Typhus | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Enteric Fever | 10 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 18 | |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Erysipelas | 11 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 9 | |||
Measles | 68 | 53 | 31 | 87 | 78 | 78 | 32 | 79 | |
Whooping Cough | 41 | 96 | 39 | 95 | 75 | 89 | 74 | 53 | |
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | 21 | 61 | 112 | 63 | 43 | |
Diarrhoea and Dysentery | 70 | 64 | 41 | 73 | 51 | 82 | 104 | 54 | |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 5 | .. | 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 | .. | 6 | |
Totals of Zymotic Class | 240 | 304 | 169 | 322 | 324 | 450 | 405 | 433 | |
Gout and Rheumatism | 26 | 18 | 14 | 33 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 26 | |
Cancer and other Tumours | 78 | 70 | 68 | 89 | 103 | 101 | 90 | 115 | |
Other constitutional diseases | 18 | 12 | 15 | 38 | 21 | 25 | 23 | 16 | |
Tubercular | 268 | 257 | 219 | 265 | 246 | 256 | 228 | 234 | |
Nervous | 292 | 298 | 282 | 294 | 287 | 302 | 295 | 246 | |
Circulatory | 142 | 160 | 146 | 150 | 180 | 185 | 179 | 172 | |
Respiratory | 330 | 357 | 302 | 473 | 510 | 453 | 488 | 340 | |
Digestive | 119 | 119 | 107 | 123 | 149 | 131 | 157 | 149 | |
Urinary | 62 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 55 | 79 | 69 | 61 | |
Generative | 4 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 12 | |
Locomotory | 1 | .. | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | |
Integumentary | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | |
Premature Births, Low Vi | |||||||||
tality, and Malformation | 144 | 156 | 149 | 174 | 170 | 183 | 215 | 164 | |
Old Age | 97 | 96 | 103 | 104 | 95 | 95 | 114 | 114 | |
Violence | 39 | 48 | 48 | 66 | 54 | 61 | 69 | 66 | |
Ill-defined and not specified | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 6 | |
Totals | 1855 | 1964 | 1698 | 2213 | 2237 | 2385 | 2376 | 2155 |
Diseases. In the Tables appear 433 deaths belonging
to this class, compared with 405 in the previous year, but
102 deaths from scarlet fever and diphtheria were of
persons not belonging to the district and took place in the
Fountain Fever Hospital. Without these the number