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of all the patients received into the above named hospital
from every source, was 17.6 percent.
Although it has been found impracticable to obtain a
detailed return of the deaths in the Small Pox Hospitals,
and consequently to present any accurate statistics of the
severity of the late epidemic in the several parts of the
District, it is nevertheless possible to form an approximate
estimate of the relative extent of its prevalence in the
several Sub-districts, by noting the relation borne by the
deaths from Small Pox to the deaths from all causes, as in
the following form :-
Percentage of Deaths from Small Pox to Deaths from all Causes in
the several Parishes of the Wandsworth District.
Battersea 17.9
Clapham 15.5
Wandsworth 3.0
Streatham 2.1
Putney 0.66
The percentage of deaths from the seven principal
Zymotic diseases to the total deaths from all causes is
28.8 as against 26.0 in the previous year.
Ordinary Diseases and their resulting Mortality.—
The deaths from diseases, apart from those of the epidemic
or Zymotic class, were in excess of the number registered
in 1870 to the extent of one only. This is somewhat
remarkable, looking at the great increase of population in
the interval of the two years, the relative numbers being
2008 in 1870 against 2,009 in the past year.
Uncertified Deaths, Inquests.-The Medical Officers of
Health have again to direct attention to the very numerous
registrations of deaths without medical certificates. They
amounted in the entire District during the past year to
116, many of them being found to relate to illegitimate
children. It is quite time the Legislature took this matter
in hand, since the evil results of the present lax system of
registration is every year increasing.