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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 1882

[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 IV. Showing the total Deaths from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1872-82.

TABLE IV. Showing the total Deaths from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1872-82.

Deaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District.Entire District.
Years.Battersea.Clapliam.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.Total Deaths from the Seven Epidemics.Total Deaths Registeredfrom all causes.Percentage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths.
1872220128203147446242118.4
18732056563243351258013.6
1874238114102652440279615.7
187530774202546472309615.2
187634086193171547315417.4
187728055222557439299114.2
1878322103264238531327516.9
187935581203692584352616.9
1880383112256178659359318.3
188138171223769580364715.8
188235374633194615385115.9

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*** The Diseases included in the above Table constitute, as in the RegistrarGeneral's
Returns, the seven principal maladies only of the Zymotic class—viz.: Small
Pox, Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea and Cholera,
and Fever