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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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51
In addition to these which occurred in the foregoing
institutions situated within the sub-district 128 were registered
in other districts as having taken place in the
following institutions without the sub-district, viz:—in
the Infirmary of the Union 84; and in the Asylums
Board and other hospitals of the Metropolis 44. These
are shown in the following table, with the sex, age, and
cause of death of the deceased.

Table: TABLE I.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE I.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infiimary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox1. .1. .1. .. .. .1
Measles2. .211. .2. .. .
Scarlet Fever312. .3. .. .. .3
Diphtheria. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Whooping-Cough. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Typhus Fever. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Enteric Fever22... .2. .. .. .2
Diarrhoea. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Other Zymotic Diseases.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Total Zymotic Diseases83517. .2. .6
Tubercular Diseases1913621431621
Cancer945. .4554. .
Rheumatism. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Respiratory Diseases1713425101511
Circulatory Diseases271215110161971
Nervous Diseases1385. .103823
Other Diseases281215114131792
Violence743. .7. .25. .
Total128695977l50843014