Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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. Showing the total Deaths from the principal Epidemic Diseases in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality during the years 1855-60.
Deaths from Epidemics in each Sub-District. | Entire District. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clapham. | Battersea. | Wandsworth. | Putney. | Streatham. | Total Deaths from Epidemics. | Total Deaths Registed. | Per centage of Deaths from Epidemics to Total Deaths. | |
1855 | 41 | 39 | 50 | 4 | 16 | 150 | 1144 | 13.1 |
1856 | 39 | 45 | 44 | 13 | 15 | 156 | 1144 | 13.6 |
1857 | 55 | 46 | 28 | 7 | 14 | 150 | 1097 | 13.6 |
1858 | 85 | 100 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 241 | 1264 | 19.0 |
1859 | 63 | 96 | 60 | 26 | 38 | 283 | 1322 | 21.4 |
1860 | 90 | 62 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 187 | 1374 | 13.6 |
*•* The Diseases included in the above Table are seven in number, and constitute,
as in the Registrar General's Returns, the principal maladies of the Zymotic class, viz.,
Small-pox, Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Hooping Cough, Diarrhcea, and Fever.