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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 1883

[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 tho entire District, with the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1873-1883.

TABLE IV.

Showing the total Deaths from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in tho entire District, with the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1873-1883.

Deaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District.Entire District.
Years.Battersea.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Wandsworth.Total Deaths from the Seven Epidemics.Total Deaths Registered from all causes.Per centage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths.
18732056563243351258013.6
1874238114102652440279615.7
187530774202546472309615.2
187634086103171547315417.4
187728055222557430299114.2
1878322103264238531327516.9
187035581203692584352616.9
1880383112256178659359318.3
188138171223769580364715.8
188235374633194615385115.9
188336987425057604408314.7

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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, Diarrhœa and
Cholera, and Fever.