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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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and this notwithstanding the fact that the density of
population has been progressively and in the last few
years rapidly increasing.
Death-Rates in District per 1,000 of the Population.
| 20.40 | |
| „ „ 1861—70 | 19.34 |
| „ „ 1871—80 | 18.06 |
| 17.16 | |
| „ „ 1882 | 17.42 |
| „ „ 1883 | 17.49 |
| „ „ 1884 | 17.85 |
The following table shews the death-rates of the several sub-districts in relation to the amount and density of population, and the proportional number of the industrial classes which each sub-district possesses:—
| SUB-DISTRICTS | Population in the middle of 1884. | Per-centage of Total Population. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 1000 | Death-rate per 1000 corrected for deaths in Public Institutions. | Density of Population—No. of Persons to Acre. | Relative Number per cent. of Industrial and other Classes. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Classes | Other Classes | |||||||
Perhaps one of the most important and hopeful
features revealed by this table, is that in Battersea with
a population of 53 persons per acre, the death-rate is
only 17.75 per 1,000 persons, while in Wandsworth with
a population of 12 persons per acre, it is 14.67 per 1000,
*This correction is necessary in consequence of the undue exaltation of the deathrates
of Battersea and Wandsworth by the mortality of the Union Infirmary and
the Bolingbroke Hospital in the former, and of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum,
St. Peter's Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables, in the latter sub-district.
In none of the death-rates in the above table are the deaths occurring in out-lying
institutionsiucluded.