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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 1896

Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896

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Table: TABLE (B) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS,coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Clapham ; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

TABLE (B) TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS,

coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary Sub-District of Clapham ; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all agesRegistered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1896.12345678910111234567891011
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.RelapsingPuerperal.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
CLAPHAM43698471221144Under 5...6625......51...............3114......1...............
5 upwds115543......26......1.........9620......6...............
Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds..................................................................
Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds..................................................................
Under 5..................................................................
5 upwds..................................................................
Total43698471221144Under 5...6625......51...............3114......1...............
5 upwds115543......26......1.........9620......6...............