Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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public institutions of West Battersea and WandsWorth.
But a true estimate of the mortality of the Wandsworth
District should include the deaths of its inhabitants
which occur in external institutions, as shown in the
following table:—
CAUSES OF DEATH. | Number in Entire District. | East Battercea. | West Battersea. | Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Wandsworth. | Union Infirmary. | General and Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 31 | 15 | 6 | 4 | l | 2 | 3 | • • | .. | 31 |
Scarlet Fever | 2 | .. | 1 | . . | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Diphtheria | 10 | 7 | .. | 2 | l | .. | .. | .. | 10 | .. |
Enteric Fever | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 3 |
Whooping Cough | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | • • | • • |
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 9 | 6 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Tubercular Diseases | 64 | 27 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 40 | 1 |
Cancer | 31 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 20 | .. |
Rheumatism | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | . . | 2 | .. |
Respiratory Diseases | 63 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 30 | 33 | . . |
Circulatory Diseases | 55 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 2 |
Nervous Diseases | 65 | 18 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 41 | 22 | 2 |
Other Diseases | 107 | 35 | 18 | 17 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 43 | 60 | 4 |
Violence | 21 | 14 | 3 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | 21 | .. |
469 | 179 | 68 | 77 | 29 | 38 | 78 | 180 | 241 | 48 |
It will be seen that 469 deaths occurred in outlying
institutions, of which 180 were in the Union Infirmary,
241 in the general and special Hospitals of the Metropolis,