Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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TABLE III.
Showing the total number of deaths and their causes registered in the entire District, during the eleven years 1874-84, with the relative numbers of each class of disease.
DISEASES, And other causes of Death | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | |||
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Classes:— | ||||||||||||||
Sinall Pox | 5 | 3 | 26 | 57 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 1 | .. | 9 | |||
Measles | 66 | 27 | 88 | 64 | 84 | 125 | 59 | 134 | 115 | 133 | 182 | |||
Scarlatina | 94 | 134 | 86 | 58 | 39 | 134 | 173 | 100 | 119 | 65 | 47 | |||
Diphtheria | 12 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 19 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 51 | 63 | 43 | |||
Whooping Cough | 89 | 107 | 126 | 73 | 149 | 148 | 123 | 105 | 163 | 133 | 145 | |||
Typhus and other fevers | 48 | 39 | 47 | 64 | 39 | 62 | 44 | 37 | 49 | 52 | 58 | |||
Disease | 117 | 134 | 159 | 114 | 182 | 94 | 213 | 149 | 117 | 158 | 239 | |||
Erysipelas | 20 | 24 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 10 | 28 | |||
Metria, Childbirth | 34 | 15 | 26 | 20 | 7 | 28 | 23 | 29 | 19 | 25 | 24 | |||
Carbuncle | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | |||
Influenza | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | • • | .. | .. | .. | |||
Quinsy | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | l | .. | 1 | .. | .. | |||
Croup | 40 | 26 | 27 | 20 | 39 | 40 | 19 | 18 | 31 | 60 | 38 | |||
Totals of Zymotic Class | 528 | 537 | 613 | 491 | 583 | 665 | 687 | 642 | 687 | 699 | 817 | |||
2. Tubercular | 469 | 565 | 555 | 514 | 501 | 513 | 625 | 557 | 521 | 654 | 715 | |||
3. Of Brain, Nerves, &c. | 426 | 455 | 316 | 450 | 503 | 474 | 464 | 540 | 539 | 574 | 602 | |||
4. Of the Heart, &c. | 146 | 176 | 170 | 204 | 212 | 203 | 193 | 245 | 251 | 255 | 269 | |||
Of Respiratory Organs | 541 | 630 | 561 | 519 | 694 | 891 | 657 | 695 | 850 | 829 | 758 | |||
6. Digestive Organs | 111 | 133 | 126 | 155 | 150 | 117 | 155 | 208 | 195 | 234 | 227 | |||
7. Urinary Organs | 26 | 55 | 62 | 63 | 42 | 74 | 66 | 70 | 89 | 99 | 80 | |||
8. Of Organs of Generation | 21 | 13 | 23 | 29 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 35 | 32 | 30 | 35 | |||
9. Of Joints, Bones, &e. | 14 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 24 | |||
10. Of Skin | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | |||
11 Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Mai-formation, &c. | 168 | 177 | 226 | 212 | 177 | 170 | 266 | 232 | 234 | 241 | 304 | |||
12. Dropsy, Cancer, and others of Uncertain Seat | 77 | 105 | 97 | 101 | 106 | 91 | 110 | 118 | 144 | 114 | 148 | |||
13. Age | 106 | 130 | 150 | 126 | 141 | 141 | 136 | 120 | 153 | 185 | 154 | |||
14. Violence | 75 | 68 | 90 | 82 | 75 | 83 | 96 | 113 | 104 | 94 | 111 | |||
15 Not Speoified | 79 | 34 | 46 | 26 | 56 | 68 | 95 | 44 | 18 | 40 | 19 | |||
Totals | 2796 | 3096 | 3154 | 2991 | 3275 | 3526 | 3593 | 3647 | 3851 | 4083 | 4266 |