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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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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
To ascertain the true death-rate, the number of
deaths outside the district among persons belonging
thereto must be added.
The total number of these deaths was 205, an increase
of 14, compared with 1895. 134 of these deaths
occurred in the Union Infirmary, 51 in general and
special hospitals, and 20 in the various hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Table II. shows the number of deaths in these institutions
from all causes, from zymotic diseases, and
from various groups of diseases, arranged as to age
periods in the grouping required by the Local Government
Board.