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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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73
Table I. shows at a glance our relative birth and
death rate during the last 10 years, and in Table II. are
enumerated all the deaths registered in the sub-district,
and classified according to the nature of the disease.
From the retrospect given in Table III. the death-rate
from Zymotic diseases is seen to be greater during 1886
than during either of the two preceding years. There
is some ground for satisfaction however in knowing that
the higher death-rate is not due to diseases traceable to
neglect of the sanitary condition of houses. The great
number of deaths from Whooping Cough occurring
among children of infantile age is the prominent feature
in the table.

Table: TABLE III.

TABLE III.

Zymotic Mortality.1877187818791880188118821883188418851886
Small-pox..1..........1....
Measles27....6132144
Scarlet Fever6..31847....1
Enteric Fever41241421031
Diphtheria1l....12924..51
Whooping-cough..4893828118
Epidemic Diarihæa710710355849
Other Zymotic Diseases21271562..14
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases22362725276944281838
Zymotic Death-rate1.82.92.11.32.05.03.11.91.22.49
Death-rate for all Diseases15.016.015.013.612.515.117.113.711.211.8

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Constitutional
and other
diseases.
Under this table (Table IV.) there is
nothing very unusual to remark upon. The
tubercular and respiratory diseases maintain their usual
prominence.