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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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Zymotic The total number of deaths in this class
Diseases-
their was 34, as against 53 in 1884,—17 of these
Prevalence were of males, and 17 of females. They
and Fatality. yield a percentage of 12.4 upon the deaths
from all causes during the year; and give a rate
of 1.1 per thousand of the population. This is the
lowest death-rate from Zymotic Diseases during the
decennium. The death-rate from the principal epidemic
diseases for the whole of London was 2.78 per thousand
for the year 1885.
The following Table contrasts all Zymotic deaths, with
the death-rate therefrom, as well as the death-rate from
all diseases during the last ten years.

Table: TABLE IV.Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham & Tooling Sub-district.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham & Tooling Sub-district.

187618771878187918801881 118821883 118841885
Small-pox..41..............
Measles22112135782
Scarlet Fever41253113928..
Diphtheria73327141335
Enteric Fever55I3521846
Whooping-Cough7611218991197
Epidemic Diarrhœa6413369391112
Other Zymotic Diseases..4..101091015112
Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases..294241684441655334
Zymotic Death-rate..1.72.32.22.71.71.62.31.81.1
Death - rate from all Diseases..12.516.715.613.912.112.614.915.313.9

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This Table shews that the mortality from epidemic
diseases was far below the decennial average. In a
largely increased population this is very significant, and