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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: Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.FemaleUnder 1.1 to 60.60 and upwardsUnion Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Measles..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Diptheeria..................
Whooping Cough..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever..................
Diarrhœa..................
Other Zymotic Diseases...................
Total Zymotc Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases1248291111..
Cancer3..3..2121..
Rheumatism1..1..1..1....
Respiratory Diseases1055..2891..
Circulatory Diseases972..469....
Nervous Diseases137614885..
Other Diseases26111519161/9..
Violence431..3113..
Total783741434405820..

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Death.rate. Calculated from the deaths registered and
the official estimate of the population, the
death.rate of the past year was 22.33 per 1,000 persons
living. But, as has been explained in previous reports,
determined in this manner it cannot be accepted as
representing the natural death.rate of this sub.district,
inasmnch as the death.register embraces the whole
mortality of the County Lunatic Asylum, St. Peter's
Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables, the inmates of
which institutions are, with a fractional exception,
derived from without the Parish, undergo no natural
increase, and are subject to a very high mortality; the
latter constituting on an average about one fifth of all
deaths registered. It is found necessary therefore to
eliminate from the calculation, the population, and