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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St. Peter's Hospital, 5; in the Prison, 14; and in the
Royal Patriotic Asylum for Girls, 1. In addition to the
foregoing that took place within the sub-district, 78 deaths
of Wandsworth parishioners occurred in outlying institutions,
viz.:—54 in the Infimary of the Union and 24 in
the Asylum Board and various Metropolitan Hospitals.
These are shewn in the following table:—
TABLE I.
Deaths in Outlying Institutions.
DISEASE | Total | Sex | Age | Institution | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Under 1 | 1 to 60 | 60 and upwards | Union Infirmary | General and Special Hospital | Aslyums Board Hospital | ||
Small Pox | 3 | 2 | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Whooping Cough | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Diarrhœa | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
Total Zymotic Diseases | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | 6 | .. | 2 | .. | 4 |
Tubercular Diseases | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 10 | .. | 8 | 3 | .. |
Cancer | 5 | 1 | 4 | .. | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | .. |
Rheumatism | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
Respiratory Diseases | 19 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 4 | .. |
Circulatory Diseases | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | 2 | 4 | 6 | .. | .. |
Nervous Diseases | 11 | 5 | 6 | .. | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
Other Diseases | 17 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 3 | .. |
Violence | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | .. |
Total | 78 | 40 | 38 | 5 | 48 | 25 | 54 | 18 | 6 |