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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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This increases the number of total deaths of parishioners to
229, giving a total death-rate of 15.8. As however many of
these persons had resided for years in the institutions, they
cannot properly be included in the mortality returns of the
parish from which they originally came.
ALEXANDER WALKER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for Putney and Roehampton.