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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 1868

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

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Table: 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 years1858-68.

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 years1858-68.

YearDeaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District.Entire District.
Clapham.Battersea.Wandsworth.Putney.Streatham.Total Deaths from the Seven Epidemics.Total Deaths Registered from all causesPer centage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths.
185885100222015241126419.0
18596396602638283132221.4
1860906222211187137413.6
186176112302118257139318.4
186252106621316233134317.3
18639586622932304147129.9
186463129431122268168815.8
186575177541126343178319.2
186686244731634453207221.3
186756122332110242193712.4
186899194641428399216818.4

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* Diseases included in the above Table constitute, as in the RegistrarGeneral
s Returns, the principal maladies only of the Zymotic class—'viz.: Small Pox,
Measles, scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, Diarrhœa and Cholera, and Fever.