London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1871
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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needs scarcely be observed, admits of the possibility of the
occurrence of such deaths from other than natural causes.
It is not necessary to repeat the observations made on
this subject from time to time in previous Reports, to
which the reader is referred, but to remark here only that
the evil is one of such magnitude as to require legislative
interference, and that the remedy, consisting in the employment
of medical investigation in all cases of uncertified
deaths, is one of direct and easy application,
| YEARS. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Cholera. | Diarrhœa. | Fever— Typhus and Typhoid. | Total Deaths from Epidemics. | Total Deaths from all causes. | Percentage of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1861 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 4 | ... | 8 | 3 | 30 | 246 | 12.1 |
| 1862 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 5 | 11 | ... | 5 | 11 | 62 | 273 | 22.7 |
| 1863 | 8 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 9 | ... | 6 | 13 | 62 | 300 | 20.6 |
| 1864 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | ... | 8 | 13 | 43 | 311 | 13.8 |
| 1865 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ... | 19 | 18 | 54 | 338 | 15.9 |
| 1866 | 3 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 5 | 73 | 351 | 20.7 |
| 1867 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 33 | 332 | 9.9 |
| 1868 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 20 | ... | 22 | 7 | 64 | 394 | 16.2 |
| 1869 | 0 | 23 | 36 | 0 | 7 | ... | 23 | 5 | 94 | 429 | 21.9 |
| 1870 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 4 | 16 | ... | 33 | 10 | 113 | 450 | 25.1 |
| 1871 | 14 | 31 | 23 | ... | 11 | ... | 21 | 3 | 113 | 453 | 24.9 |