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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 1866
[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 registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1856-66.
| Year | Deaths from Epidemics in each Sub-District. | Entire District. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapham. | Battersea. | Wandsworth. | Putney. | Streatham. | Total Deaths from Epidemics. | Total Deaths Registered. | Percentage of Deaths from Epidemics to Total Deaths. | |
| 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 |
| 1861 | 76 | 112 | 30 | 21 | 18 | 257 | 1393 | 18.4 |
| 1862 | 52 | 106 | 62 | 13 | 16 | 233 | 1343 | 17.3 |
| 1863 | 95 | 86 | 62 | 29 | 32 | 304 | 1471 | 29.9 |
| 1864 | 63 | 129 | 43 | 11 | 22 | 268 | 1688 | 15.8 |
| 1865 | 75 | 177 | 54 | 11 | 26 | 343 | 1783 | 19.2 |
| 1866 | 86 | 244 | 73 | 16 | 34 | 453 | 2072 | 21.3 |
*** The Diseases included in the above Table constitute, as in the RegistrarGeneral's
Returns, the principal maladies only of the Zymotie class—viz.: Small Pox,
Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, Diarrhoea and Cholera, and Fever.