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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: Epidemic Diseases, their prevalence and fatality.—The following table exhibits the total number of deaths that were registered as having occurred from the seven principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes.

Epidemic Diseases, their prevalence and fatality.—The following table exhibits the total number of deaths that were registered as having occurred from the seven principal Epidemic diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes.

Years.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Cholera.Diarrhoea. _____Fever—Typhus and Typhoid.Total Deaths from Epidemic.Total Deaths from all causes.Per centage of deaths from Epidemics to deaths from all causes.
1874..14219..1266245311.5
1876125214..1764642010.9
187611712110..16127146115.4
1877....21..11..1695738414.8
1878..4246..193384229.0
187911616144..789251617.8
1880..924416..2067848416.1
18819519112..1946950713.6
1882..189326..2999454417.2
1883..146115..10125749911.4
1884.165417..2746457611.1

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The total deaths that resulted from the above diseases
were 64 in number, and less by a thirteenth part than the
average of the preceding tea years corrected for increase of
population ; and the proportion that they bore to the deaths
from all causes was upwards of one-third less than such
average. Two diseases only of the class exceeded their
average fatality; these were Diphtheria and Diarrhoea, the
former by one half, the latter by more than a third. Fever
was less latal than the average by one half, Measles and
Scarlatina by rather less than one-half, while the deaths