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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 1881
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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work done, as there are in Streatliam and Tooting about
luO permanent paupers who require visiting periodically,
and can obtain medical advice at any time without a
fresh order.
In the Zymotic class were 30 cases, including 14 of
Small-pox, 2 of Measles, 7 of Scarlatina, 1 of Whoopingcough,
4 of Diarrhoea, and 2 of Eever, without any deaths.
In the other classes were 7 deaths, including 2 from
Phthisis.
The ratio of deaths to cases treated was upwards of
5 per cent.
| Nobility and Gentry | 35 | =- | 11.18 Per cent. |
| Professional Class | 39 | = | 12.46 |
| Middle and Trading Class | 87 | = | 27.80 |
| Industrial and Labouring Class | 152 | = | 48.56 |
| Total deaths in 1881 | 313 | 100.00 |
| I. Natural | Heart Disease | 1 | ||
| Apoplexy | 1 | |||
| Syncope | 1 | |||
| Convulsions | 1 | — | 4 | |
| II. Accidental | Kicked on Head by Horse | 1 | ||
| Asphyxia | 1 | |||
| Injury toHead and Fracture of Leg | 1 | |||
| Drowned Bathing | 1 | |||
| Concussion of Brain | 1 | |||
| Fracture to Arm, fall | 1 | |||
| Injuries to Head | 1 | |||
| Congestion of Brain | 1 | — | 8 | |
| III. Suicidal | Poison | 1 | — | 1 |
| 13 | ||||
There were only two uncertified deaths.