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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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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 1861-71.
| Years. | Deaths 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 causes | Per centage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths. | |||
| 1861 | 76 | 112 | 30 | 21 | 18 | 257 | 1393 | 18.4 | ||
| 1862 | 62 | 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 | ||
| 186G | 86 | 244 | 73 | 16 | 34 | 453 | 2072 | 21.3 | ||
| 1867 | 56 | 122 | 33 | 21 | 10 | 242 | 1937 | 12.4 | ||
| 1868 | 99 | 194 | G4 | 14 | 28 | 399 | 2168 | 18.4 | ||
| 1869 | 117 | 247 | 94 | 31 | 27 | 516 | 2393 | 21.5 | ||
| 1870 | 119 | 404 | 113 | 19 | 37 | 692 | 2659 | 26.0 | ||
| 1871 | 178 | 463 | 103 | 32 | 31 | 807 | 2887 | 28.8 | ||
***The 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, Diarrhoea and Cholera, and Fever.