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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.
Diarrhoea caused only 11 deaths in Clapliam and 3
in out-lying institutions. This small number, less than
in any of the ten preceding years, was no doubt in consequence
of the cool summer experienced in 1894.
Influenza 11 deaths were referred to this cause, also
1 in an out-lying institution. This is a smaller number
than in any year since 1890, when it was first met with
as a cause of death in recent years. There was not any
great prevalence of it in 1894 till quite at the end of the
year, when the cases began to increase, leading up to the
epidemic we are experiencing in the early months of
this present year.