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Wandsworth 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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53
Social position of the deceased.—71 per cent. of all
deaths and 77 per cent. of the deaths from epidemic
diseases took place amongst the labouring population;
These figures do not greatly exceed the average, so that
notwithstanding the extensive prevalence and fatality of
epidemic diseases, and the occurrence of a high death-rate,
during the past year, the working classes did not suffer, as
might be expected, a disproportionately large mortality, a
result which indicates sanitary progress in the most
desirable direction.
Epidemic diseases—their prevalence and fatality.—

Table: The following Table shows the deaths which have resulted faom the seven principal Epidemic Diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes:—

The following Table shows the deaths which have resulted faom the seven principal Epidemic Diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relation which they bore to the deaths from all causes:—

YEARSSmall PoxMeaslesScarlet FeverDiphtheriaWhooping CoughCholeraDiarrhœaFever—Typhus and TyphoidTotal Deaths from EpidemicsTotal Deaths from all causesPer rentage of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes
1869••2336••7••2359442921.9
1870••248416••331011345025.1
1871143123••11••21310345322.7
1872151313••2044736512.8
1873••4••38••2274443310.1
1874••142••19••1255245311.5
1875125214••1754642010.9
187611712110••16127146115.4
1877••••21••11••1695738414.8
1878••4246••193384229.0
187911615144••789251617.8