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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: showsthenature of the cause of death, the age, and sex of the deceased, and the character of the institution in which they died.

showsthenature of the cause of death, the age, and sex of the deceased, and the character of the institution in which they died.

DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfinnaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small-pox..................
Scarlet Fever422..4......4
Diphtheria614..5....5..
Enteric Fever11. ...1....1..
Whooping Cough..................
Measles................
Other Zymotic Diseases1. .1..1....1. .
Tubercular Diseases66....6..51. .
Cancer633..33..6. .
Rheumatism11......1..1..
Respiratory Diseases862..6235..
Circulatory Diseases734..3434..
Nervous Diseases129317457..
Other Diseases82613453..
Violence431121..4..
Totals6337263411921384

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There were 63 deaths in outlying institutions, 37 of
males and 26 of females; 21 took place in the Union In-
firmary, 38 in general and special hospitals, and 4 in the
Asylums Board Hospitals.
When these 63 deaths are added to the 515 that
occurred in the sub-district, the death-rate is raised to
12 8 per 1,000, of the population.
I may again observe that in comparing the death-rate
of this and former years, we must not lose sight of the
fact that only in the last four years have outlying deaths
been included in the local death-rate.