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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 1862

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

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its rate of mortality below 17 per 1,000, so long may it
feel justly proud of its relative sanitary position; inasmuch
as but few rural parishes can boast of a much
lower rate than that above-named.

Table: PROGRESS OF MORTALITY. The Table which follows exhibits the mortality within the registration district of Putney during the four quarters of 1862, viewed in connexion with four of the principal meteorological readings of those periods, thus affording the means of judging how far temperature, humidity, amount of rain, &c.,may have influenced the fatality that has attended the different classes of disease at different seasons of the past year. /

PROGRESS OF MORTALITY. The Table which follows exhibits the mortality within the registration district of Putney during the four quarters of 1862, viewed in connexion with four of the principal meteorological readings of those periods, thus affording the means of judging how far temperature, humidity, amount of rain, &c.,may have influenced the fatality that has attended the different classes of disease at different seasons of the past year. /

REGISTERED CAUSES OF DEATH.NUMBER OF DEATHS.
1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.The Year.
Zymotic Diseases (epidemic, endemic, and contagious)206816
Diseases of the Respiratory organs, including Phthisis987428
Other Diseases17714947
Accidental and violent deaths, and deaths from malformation, premature birth, &c44109
Old Age [natural decay]42107
Totals36212921107
Meteorological Readings.Mean temperature of air410153°358°745°049°5
„ Degree of Humidity85°80°81°89°84°
„ Readings of Barometer29.77029.90229.72929.79229.798
Amount of Rain4.5 in.4.5 in.4.3 in.7.4 in.20.7 in

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This Table will also point out the relative number of
deaths in each quarter from each classified cause.