Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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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.
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 Pox | 1 | . . | 1 | . . | 1 | . . | . . | . . | 1 |
Measles | 2 | . . | 2 | 1 | 1 | . . | 2 | . . | . . |
Scarlet Fever | 3 | 1 | 2 | . . | 3 | . . | . . | . . | 3 |
Diphtheria | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Whooping-Cough | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Typhus Fever | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Enteric Fever | 2 | 2 | .. | . . | 2 | . . | . . | . . | 2 |
Diarrhoea | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Other Zymotic Diseases. | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Total Zymotic Diseases | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 | . . | 2 | . . | 6 |
Tubercular Diseases | 19 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 16 | 2 | 1 |
Cancer | 9 | 4 | 5 | . . | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | . . |
Rheumatism | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Respiratory Diseases | 17 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
Circulatory Diseases | 27 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 1 |
Nervous Diseases | 13 | 8 | . . | 10 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 3 | |
Other Diseases | 28 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 2 |
Violence | 7 | 4 | 3 | . . | 7 | . . | 2 | 5 | . . |
Total | 128 | 69 | 59 | 7 | 7l | 50 | 84 | 30 | 14 |