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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

Battersea 1900

Report upon the public health & sanitary condition of Battersea during the year1900

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Deaths and Death-Rates (contd.)
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Elsewhere.
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11
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TABLE II.
Deaths of Battersea "Residents" Occurring Outside The
Borough In Public Institutions And Elsewhere within The
Metropolis.
CAUSE
OF
DEATH.
Totals.
Sex.
Age.
Institutions, &c.
65 and upwards.
Males.
1 to 5 years.
All under 5.
5 to 15 years.
15 to 25 years
25 to 65 years.
Union Workhouses,
&c.
General and
Special Hospitals.
Asylums Board
Hospitals.
County and other
Lunatic Asylums.
Under 1 year.
Females
Small Pox
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Scarlatina
11
5
6
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8
8
3
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11
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Diphtheria
19
12
7
2
10
12
5
2
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1
18
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Membranous Croup
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Typhus Fever
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Enteric „
15
11
4
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4
3
8
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1
14
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Continued Fever
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Relapsing
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Puerperal
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Cholera
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Erysipelas
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Measles
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1
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1
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1
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Whooping Cough
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Diarrhœa
7
5
2
6
1
7
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7
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Other Zymotics
4
4
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4
3
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1
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Total Zymotics
57
34
23
8
19
27
12
5
9
4
3
10
43
1
Rheumatic Fever
2
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2
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2
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2
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Ague
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Phthisis and other
Tubercular Diseases
43
28
15
1
1
12
3
6
22
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2
31
2
8
Respiratory
25
11
14
1
5
6
4
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10
5
1
12
4
6
Circulatory
35
21
14
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1
1
2
4
16
12
3
23
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5
Nervous
55
33
22
1
2
3
6
4
34
8
2
15
2
35
Cancer
29
13
16
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1
1
19
8
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Violence
26
19
7
1
3
4
2
3
16
1
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15
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All Other Diseases
48
21
27
7
1
8
4
4
20
12
4
28
2
12
Totals
320
180
140
19
42
61
34
27
148
50
15
161
53
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