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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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TABLE V.
| Diseases. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883 | 1884. | 1885. | 1885. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above corrected average. | No. below corrected average. | ||||||||||||||
| Seven principal Epidemic Diseases. | Small Pox | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 2 | .. | |
| Measles | 2 | 17 | .. | 4 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 19 | 9 | .. | ||
| Searlet Fever | 5 | 12 | 21 | 2 | 15 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | .. | 11 | ||
| Diphtheria | 2 | 1 | .. | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 3 | .. | ||
| Fever | Typhus Euteric | 5 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | .. | 4 | |
| Whooping Cough | 14 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 44 | 15 | 12 | 26 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 6 | .. | ||
| Diarrhoea | 17 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 20 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 14 | .. | ||
| Cholera | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
| Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases | 46 | 71 | 57 | 38 | 92 | 78 | 69 | 94 | 57 | 64 | 94 | 16 | .. | ||
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 10 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 19 | 3 | .. | 12 | ||
| Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 56 | 80 | 63 | 48 | 104 | 92 | 76 | 108 | 77 | 83 | 97 | .. | .. | ||
| Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000 | 2.48 | 3.45 | 2.64 | 1.96 | 4.14 | 3.35 | 2.71 | 3.72 | 2.57 | 2.70 | 3.07 | ||||
| Total Deaths from all causes | 420 | 461 | 384 | 422 | 516 | 484 | 507 | 544 | 499 | 576 | 628 | 68 | .. | ||
| Per centage of Deaths from Epidemics to Deaths from all causes | 10.9 | 15.4 | 14.8 | 9.0 | 17.8 | 16.1 | 13.6 | 17.2 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 14.9 | ||||
Of the 97 deaths that resulted from the above diseases,
94 were of the epidemic (or infectious) kind, and exceeded
the average of the preceding ten years corrected for
increase of population by upwards of a fifth part. This
excess was principally due to Measles, Diarrhoea, and
Whooping Cough, the two first of which diseases exceeded
their average fatality by one-half, and the third by a
third part. Diphtheria was in excess by one-half, but
Scarlatina shewed a diminution of three-fourths, and