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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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36
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Deaths in
out-lying
Institutions.
The next table gives particulars of these deaths.
They were 126 in number and are classified
according to causes of death and age groups, and. the
character of institution in which they occurred. 44 took
place in the Union Infirmary, 52 in the General and Special
Hospitals, and 30 in those of the Metropolitan Asylums'
Board. There were 140 of these deaths in 1893:—

Table: TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

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.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever844..8......8
Diphtheria241311..24....321
Enteric Fever11....1....1..
Erysipelas11....1..1....
Measles..................
Whooping Cough..................
Influenza11....1..1..
Diarrhoea3..3..2121..
Other Zymotic Diseases................
Tubercular Diseases16106..1688..
Cancer963..7254..
Rheumatism11..1....1..
Respiratory Diseases936..63531
Circulatory Diseases615..3342..
Nervous Diseases11410..9577..
Other Diseases201378111812..
Violence10821928..
Age312321..
Totals120666099918445230