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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 1885
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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| Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths from natural causes | 15 | 3 | 18 | |
| Deaths from violence, viz.:— | ||||
| Wound of Wrist | __ | 1 | 11 | |
| Choked by Food | 1 | |||
| Drowning | 3 | — | ||
| Knocked down by Locomotive | 1 | — | ||
| Hemorrhage | 1 | — | ||
| Suffocation | 2 | — | ||
| Run over by Horse & Cart | — | 1 | ||
| Drowning | 1 | — | 3 | |
| Cut-throat | 2 | — | ||
| Manslaughter | 1 | — | 2 | |
| Execution | 1 | — | ||
| 1 | — | 1 | ||
| 29 | 6 | 35 | ||
Sanitation.
All the usual sanitary operations (the most
important of which will be found enumerated
in Table IV. in the Appendix) were carried out with
unabated activity. In addition to ascertaining the
existence of nuisances, and the investigation of such as
formed the subjects of complaint, the inspecting of houses
(all classes) and recording their sanitary condition, with
the removal of ascertained defects, have been systematically
pursued as a daily routine; by a reference to the
table it will be seen that no less than 4,350 houses have
been so dealt with during the year. As an indication of
the extent of these inspections, it may be observed that
at the census of 1881 the number of inhabited houses
(although they have considerably increased since that
period) was 4,255. The process of disinfection and
purification of houses after Epidemic diseases have been
perseveringly employed,—immediately in the case of a