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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 1877
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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CLAPHAM.
As has been my custom for several years, I present
the following introductory table, including the number of
marriages as well as that of births and deaths, as a means
of estimating the social as well as sanitary progress of
this Sub-district. Such simple tables require no lengthy
description, and so save the reader much unnecessary
labour.
Years 18G7 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877
Marriages 244 272 234 158 249 236 257 284 243 313 319
Births 777 801 838 867 864 858 929 937 965 1029 1019*
Deaths 451 450 508 480 604 482 475 528 548 545 467
Excess of
Births over
Deaths 326 351 330 387 260 370 454 409 471 484 581
* Of this number I successfully vaccinated in 400 cases. — J. M. D.
In the past year we have all that could be wished in
a statistical sense. In the first place the marriages show
an increase even upon the unusually large number of
1876, as well as the preceding ten years, which is one
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