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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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Death and 187 deaths were registered during the year,
95 males and 92 females. The death-rate was
11.7. This is the lowest point at which the death-rate
has touched during the last ten years with the exception
of the year 1885, and is 6.8 below the recorded deathrate
of the whole of London.
Outlying The deaths enumerated above only include
institutions. those registered within the district. Table
II gives a return of those deaths of the inhabitants of
Putney and Roehampton which have occurred in public
institutions outside the parish.

Table: TABLE II.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE II.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Diphtheria11..........1..
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Disease11..........l..
Tubercular Diseases1. .1..1. .1• •..
Cancer211..11..2..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases.532..4132..
Circulatory Diseases4..4....44....
Nervous Diseases Other Diseases7 85 32 5.. 14 23 52 65 2.. ..
Violence11....1....1..
Totals301515313141614..

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It will be seen that 30 deaths have occurred in these
institutions of which the majority occurred in The Union
Infirmary. If these deaths be added to those registered
in the district it raises our death-rate to 13.5 per 1000,
as compared with 14.3 in the previous year.