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Wandsworth 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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the patients are carefully isolated. It is to be hoped
likewise that some system of compulsory registration
of infectious disease will be found feasible, without
which the preventive measures capable of being taken
by the sanitary authority, are, owing to defective
information, very partial and imperfect.
The relative mortality from Epidemic diseases in the several sub-districts is shewn in the following table:—
| Years | No. of deaths from the seven principal epidemic diseases per 1000 of the population. | Ratio of deaths from the seven principal epidemic diseases to every 100 of the total deaths. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battersea | Claphum | Putney | Streatham | Wandsworth | Battersea | Clapham | Putney | Streatham | Wandsworth | |
| 1878 | 4.02 | 3.21 | 2.24 | 2.93 | 1.55 | 17.8 | 17.70 | 13.80 | 14.70 | 9.00 |
| 1879 | 4.30 | 2.40 | 1.60 | 1.90 | 3.50 | 17.9 | 14.40 | 11.10 | 12.0 | 17.70 |
| 1880 | 3.60 | 3.30 | 1.90 | 2.50 | 3.30 | 18.7 | 21.90 | 14.10 | 19.50 | 19.00 |
| 1881 | 3.50 | 1.93 | 1.65 | 1.43 | 2.44 | 17.63 | 14.22 | 13.70 | 11.82 | 13.60 |
| 1882 | 3.09 | 1.90 | 4.60 | 110 | 3.20 | 15.90 | 13.60 | 30.28 | 9.09 | 17.27 |
| 1883 | 3.09 | 2.26 | 2.98 | 1.78 | 1.90 | 15.74 | 10.01 | 17.42 | 11.93 | 11.42 |
| 1884 | 4.58 | 2.10 | 1.94 | 1.82 | 2.70 | 20.17 | 15.28 | 14.07 | 12.00 | 11.10 |
The Epidemic death-rate was somewhat higher in
Battersea than any other part of the district, owing
largely to the outbreak of Summer Diarrhoea; though
Battersea also presented some preponderance of
Whooping Cough and Measles, and of continued Fevers
(Typhoid, &c.) In Putney fatal cases of Fever
and of Scarlet Fever, were entirely absent, but Diphtheria
was somewhat prevalent. The exact distribution of the
epidemic diseases may be studied in Table II. (appendix).
Vaccination.—The returns of Vaccination for
children born during the year 1884 are not yet presented.