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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 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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TABLE IV.
Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the Treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each Class of Disease, during the Quarter, ending 26th December, 1857. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books
| Sud-DISTRICTS. | Total Cases of Sickne,s treated in each Sub-District. | 1. Small Pox. | 2. Measles. | Scarlatina and ??? Sore .Throat | 4. Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentry. | 6 Cholera. | 7. Fever. | 8. Erysipelas. | 9. Puerperal Fever. | 10. Lung Diseases except Phthisis | 11. Phthisis. | 12. Hydrocephalus Atrophy, Scrofula, & Con vulsions of children. | 13. Other Diseases | 14. Violence, Privation, & Pre. mature Birth. | Total Deaths in each Sub-District | ||||||||||||||
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| Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Case | .. Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. i | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases, | Deaths | |||
| CLAPHAM | 294 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 117 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 114 | 3 | 10 | 15 | |||||||||||||
| WANDSWORTH | 233 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 86 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 123 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| BATTERSEA .. | 232* | 5 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 42 | 2 | 169 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| PUTNEY | 157 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 80 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| STREATHAM | 56 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| TOOTING | 33 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| BALHAM | 19 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 1024 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 47 | 31 | 1 | 15 | 293 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 1 | 547 | 18 | 21 | 2 | 41 | ||||||||
* This return does not include the sickness and mortality in the Workhouse, situated in the parish of Battersea.