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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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COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
| Diseases. | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 . | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1888. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above corrected average. | No. bel corrected average. | |||||||||||||
| Small Pox | .. | 1 | .. | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1.6 | |
| Measles | 4 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 19 | 28 | 20 | 39 | 23 | .. | |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 15 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6.5 | ||
| Diphtheria | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | |
| fever(Typhus Enteric ) | 3 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | •• | 2 | ||
| W hooping Cough | 6 | 44 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 31 | 8 | 40 | 18 | .. | ||
| Diarrhoea | 19 | 7 | 20 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 7 | .. | |
| Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases | 38 | 92 | 78 | 69 | 94 | 57 | 64 | 94 | 111 | 67 | 125 | 36 | .. | |
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 10 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | .. | 9 | |
| Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 48 | 104 | 92 | 76 | 108 | 77 | 83 | 97 | 116 | 71 | 127 | 36 | 9 | |
| Zymotic Death. rate per 1,000 population | 1.96 | 4.14 | 3.35 | 2.71 | 3.72 | 2.57 | 2.70 | 3.07 | 3.58 | 2.14 | 3.73 | 22 | .. | |
| Total Deaths from all causes | 422 | 516 | 484 | 507 | 544 | 499 | 576 | 628 | 722 | 610 | 711 | 68 | .. | |
| Percentage of Deaths from Epidemics to Deaths from all causes. | I 90 | 17.8 | 16.1 | 13.6 | 17.2 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 14.9 | 153 | 10.9 | 17.5 | 1.4 | ||
The months in which the deaths from Epidemic
diseases occurred, with the mean temperature of each
quarter are shewn in the sub-joined table. By far the
greatest number of deaths are seen to have occurred in
the third quarter mostly from Measles and Diarrhoea.
The next greatest amount of fatality occurred in the
fourth quarter principally from Measles, which caused 25
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