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Wandsworth 1888

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

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24
Deaths in Outlying Institutions
During every year many inhabitants die in
institutions external to the parish. The whole,
of these persons returned in 1888 numbered 107, including
deaths in the Union Infirmary, General and Special
Hospitals, Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum Board,
and the County and other Lunatic Asylums. If these
deaths are added to those occurring within the boundaries
of Clapham, we get a mortality of 658 during 1888, giving
a rate of 14.9 per thousand as compared with 16.5
in the preceding year.
Table III. gives full details of the numbers, ages, and
causes of deaths in outlying Institutions.

Table: TABLE III.Deaths, in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths, in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever104619......10
Diphtheria743..7....52
Enteric Fever211..2......2
Whooping Cough..................
Measles1..1..1..1....
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases17125..16l1061
Cancer844..6235..
Rheumatism1..1....11....
Respiratory Diseases1183..65731
Circulatory Diseases1495..591022
Nervous Diseases1165..92425
Other Diseases207132612164..
Violence53214..14..
Total107584947132533123