[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)] page 99

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: Zymotic Mortality. The following table exhibits the totalEpidemic Diseases,their prevalence deaths that occurred from Zymotic dis and fatality. eases, particularizing those that resulted from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes. It also shews the increase or decrease of deaths in 1886 compared with the annual average deaths in 1 876 85, raised in proportion to increase of population:—

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Zymotic Mortality. The following table exhibits the total

Epidemic Diseases,

their prevalence deaths that occurred from Zymotic dis and fatality. eases, particularizing those that resulted from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes. It also shews the increase or decrease of deaths in 1886 compared with the annual average deaths in 1 876 85, raised in proportion to increase of population:—

Diseases.			1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1886.
Diseases.			1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	No. above corrected average.	No. below corrected average
Seven principal Epidemic Diseases.	Small Pox		1	..	..	1	..	9	..	..	1	3	..	..	1.7
	Measles Scarlet		17	••	4	16	9	5	18	14	6	19	28	15	••
	Fever		12	21	2	15	24	19	9	5	5	3	6	..	7
	Diphtheria		1	..	4	1	4	1	3	11	4	6	10	6	..
	Fever	Typhusi	12	9	3	8	6	4	9	12	4	4	8	••	..
	Fever	Enteric	12	9	3	8	6	4	9	12	4	4	8	••	..
	Whooping Cough		10	11	6	44	15	12	26	5	17	24	31	11	..
	Diarrhœa		16	16	19	7	20	19	29	10	27	35	28	5	..
	Cholera		2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases			71	57	38	92	78	69	94	57	64	94	111	27	..
Other Zymotic Diseases			9	6	10	12	14	7	14	20	19	3	5	..	8
Total Deaths from ZymoticDiseases			80	63	48	104	92	76	108	77	83	97	116	1.9	..
Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000			3.45	2.64	1.96	4.14	3.35	2. 71	3.72	2.57	2.70	3.07	3.58	57	..
Total Deaths fron all causes			461	384	422	16	184	507	544	499	576	528	722	125	..
Per centage ol Deaths from Epi demies to Deaths from all causes			15.4	14.8	9.0	17.8	16.1	13.6	17. 2	11.4	11.1	14.9	15.3	12	..

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