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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 1879

[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 Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1879. Compiled from the District Medical Relief Books.

TABLE V.Cases of Sickness amongst the Poor under the treatment of the Union Medical Officers, with the Deaths from each class of Disease, during the year ended 31st December, 1879. 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 Diphtheria.4—Whooping Cough.6—Diarrhoea and Dysentery.6—Cholera.7—Fever.8—Erysipelas.9—Puerperal Fever.10—Lung Diseases except Phthisis.11—Phtliisis.12—Hydrocephalus, 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.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.Cases.Deaths.
Clapham8075...619...6117.........8111.........976163......5082361843
Wandsworth7859...7213654718.........3...1.........2691262223601543...47
BatterseaEast123114...25...25...321251......11...12.........252546121753720...16
West28119...3...31......91......8...2.........688541115459...20
Putney and Roehampton2011.........1.........112........................4322...11144l717
Streatham, including Tooting and Balham99..................5131............1.........2033.........63...4...5
Totals341348...4135179710835......103117.........749367810651982511449138

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* * The ratio of deaths to cases treated is 4.04 per cent.