London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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Zymotic Mortality.—The deaths from this class of disease
were 251—128 being males and 123 females, and are 39 in
excess of those in the previous year. The greatest fatality
was from Diarrhoea, Whooping Cough and Measles, which
contributed 152 of the total. As compared with last year
there is an increase in Diarrhoea and also in Scarlet Fever.
6 were returned as Infantile Cholera. Diarrhoea was extensively
prevalent in the summer months owing to the high
temperature which prevailed.
From Fevers other than Scarlet and Measles there were 21
deaths, classified as follows :—
Typhoid or Enteric 17
Typhus 1
Puerperal 3—21
The case of Typhus was that of a female employed
managing a business at Putney.
Of the total number, 16 were under 1, 83 from 1 to 5 years
of age, and but 9 from 5 to 20; it will thus be seen that the
period of life most susceptible to this class of disease is up to
5 years of age.
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