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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 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table: TABLE II.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE II.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small-pox..................
Scarlet Fever11....1......1
Diphtheria1..1..1....1..
Enteric Eever............1....
Whooping Cough1..1..........
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases1064..10..64..
Cancer413..2213..
Rheumatism11......11....
Respiratory Diseases1082..7364..
Circulatory Diseases1477..8695..
Nervous Diseases871..6235..
Other Diseases23149310101211..
Violence32112••••3
Totals7647295472439361

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It will be seen that 39 of the external deaths occurred
in the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary, 36
in various hospitals, and only 1 in the Asylums Board
Hospitals.
If these 76 deaths be added to the 545 occurring in
Clapham, the death-rate becomes 14 80 per 1,000, as
compared with 14.32 in the preceding year. This remarkably
low inclusive death-rate bears out the statements
already made as to the excellent vital condition
of Clapham during the past year.
Deaths occurring
in Clapham.
In the following table the deaths registered
as occurring within Clapham are
classified according to cause, age, sex and social position;
and a more detailed list is given of the deaths from
zymotic diseases.