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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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Table: TABLE V.Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1871. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

TABLE V.

Cases of Sickness amongst the out-door Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1871. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

SUB-DISTRICTS.Total Cases of Sickness treated in each Sub-district.1—Small Pox.2—Measles.3—Scarlatina and Malignant Sore Throat.4—Whooping Cough.5—Diarrhoea and Dysentery.6—Cholera.7—Fever.8—Erysipelas.9 —Puerperal Fever.10—Lung Diseases except Phthisis.11—Phthisis.12 —H ydrocephalus, Atrophy, Scrofula, and Convulsions, of Children.13—Other Diseases.14—Violence, Privation, and Premature Birth.Total Deaths in each Sub-District.
Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.DeathsCases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths
Clapham148939629......202206543......189...72......19291775310499842...76
Wandsworth2037132510273541911824......20...4.........395149942101724118...70
Battersea2283517242942222113231...125515.........36792973149161557...70
Putney and Roehampton3181612...254......11.........12...1.........1442...51209221...12
Streatham, including Tooting and Balham172108...8...1171............5.........25152......9746...9
Totals62991071591417130126293861113465322......9933762259317273853244...237