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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 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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TABLE IV. Showing the total Deaths from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, with the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1874-84.
| Years. | Deaths from the seven principal Epidemics in each Sub-District. | Entire District. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| 1874 | 238 | 114 | 10 | 26 | 52 | 440 | 2796 | 15.7 |
| 1875 | 307 | 4 | 20 | 25 | 46 | 472 | 3096 | 15.2 |
| 1876 | 340 | 86 | 19 | 31 | 71 | 547 | 3154 | 17.4 |
| 1877 | 280 | 4 | 22 | 25 | 57 | 439 | 2991 | 14.2 |
| 1878 | 322 | 103 | 26 | 42 | 38 | 531 | 3275 | 16.9 |
| 1879 | 355 | 81 | 20 | 36 | 92 | 584 | 3526 | 16.9 |
| 1880 | 383 | 112 | 25 | 61 | 78 | 659 | 3593 | 18.3 |
| 1881 | 381 | 71 | 22 | 37 | 69 | 580 | 3647 | 15.8 |
| 1882 | 353 | 74 | 63 | 31 | 94 | 615 | 3851 | 15.9 |
| 1883 | 369 | 87 | 42 | 50 | 57 | 604 | 4083 | 14.7 |
| 1884 | 505 | 83 | 28 | 43 | 64 | 723 | 4266 | 16 9 |
*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.