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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 1888

[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 IV.Zymotic Mortality in Clapham.

TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in Clapham.

1879188018811882188318841885188618871888
Small-pox..271..2........
Measles1719101533333112514
Scarlet Fever1221152683..165
Diphtheria133478461016
Enteric Fever9437348345
WhoopingCough25251317161525342528
EpidemicDiarrhœa1736204191816252415
Other Zymotic Diseases2197726125461
Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases102119788111295618410084
Zymotic Deathrate3.13.42.12.12.92.31.492.002.321.9
Death-rate from all Diseases17.014.913-514.515.113.712.412.913.9312.4

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Small Pox.—No cases of this disease came under notice
during the year.
Scarlet, Fever was the cause of 5 deaths in Clapham and
10 in out-lying institutions. There have come under notice
109 cases altogether. The death-rate from this disease
is equal to .33 per thousand of the estimated population.
The incidence of Scarlet Fever was most marked
during the first quarter of the year,as in London generally,
and since then has declined, causing however the mortality
for the whole year to be higher than in 1887. The disease
has generally presented symptoms of a mild type,
and it is satisfactory to record that a larger proportion of
the cases, than formerly, has been removed to the