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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 1861

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table:

BATTERSEASex.Age.Social Position.
Population in 1861, 19,852. Area in statute acres, 2,343. Males. Females. Totel.Under 1 Year.From 1 to 5 Years.From 5 to 10 Years.Under 20 Years, including all under 20 years.At 20 and under 40 Years of age.At 40 and under 60 years of age.At 60, and under 80 years of age.80 Years and upwards.Nobility and Gentry.Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c.Middle & Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c.Industrial and Labouring Class.
DISEASES, And other Causes of Death.
Classes
Small Pox...111......1.....................1
Measles2132...13.....................3
Scarlatina1715322181232............1...922
Diphtheria3582127...1.........233
1. Zymotic Whooping Cough Typhus and Infantile Fever71421813...21...............1218
81119...7319..................109
Erysipelas3142......2......2.........13
Diarrhœa151126223...251............2717
Cholera2...2...1...2..................11
Total5759116394318102112...153377
2. Tubercular131528168128...............2224
3. Of Brain, Nerves, &c.263056236435378323744
4. Of Heart16925...125...1361...4417
5. Of Respiratory Organs73621352829165292813...2323107
6. Digestive Organs211536142...1711161...1926
7. Of Urinary Organs628......11...43.........35
8. Of Organs of Generation...66.........132.........114
9. Of Joints, Bones, &c.112.........11...............11
10. Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.13112422......24...............2715
11. Age161130..................2010...2421
12. violence1051514275111...1410
13. Not Specified1311243...15298......1419
Total265240505146933030145766716525102373

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PREVALENCE OF AND MORTALITY FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Diseases of this class have been unusually prevalent during the
past year, and have likewise proved unusually fatal, since of nine
epidemic diseases enumerated in the table, as many as 116 resulted
in death, whilst in the previous year there were registered only 68
deaths from the same class of diseases. This instance of excessive
mortality from zymotic disease deserves to be recorded and remembered
as a warning, and will, it is hoped, lead to the adoption of
increased precautionary arrangements.
Measles and small pox have been much less fatal during the past
year than during 1860, 3 deaths only having occurred from the