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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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of the 37 deaths recorded. In the first quarter 22 of the
27 deaths occurred from Whooping-Cough, and in the
second quarter 10 of the 16 deaths resulted from that
disease. The climatic conditions associated with these
deaths are that during the prevalence of the epidemics
of Whooping-Cough and Measles, the great majority of
the deaths from these diseases occurred in the autumn
and winter quarters coincidently with an unusually low
temperature, the latter operating unfavourably on these
diseases by the development of pulmonic complications.

Table: The climatic conditions associated with these deaths are that during the prevalence of the epidemics of Whooping-Cough and Measles, the great majority of the deaths from these diseases occurred in the autumn and winter quarters coincidently with an unusually low temperature, the latter operating unfavourably on these diseases by the development of pulmonic complications.

The climatic conditions associated with these deaths are that during the prevalence of the epidemics of Whooping-Cough and Measles, the great majority of the deaths from these diseases occurred in the autumn and winter quarters coincidently with an unusually low temperature, the latter operating unfavourably on these diseases by the development of pulmonic complications.

DISEASE.JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
Mean Temp. 36.9Mean Temp. 51.6Mean Temp. 57.6Mean Temp. 44.6
Small Pox........................
Measles............4469142
Scarlatina1..............2....1
Diphtheria......1........1....1
Whooping Cough____796451..33..11
Diarrhoea11..11179623..
Fever1..111........1....
Totals1010777211161812205
27164537

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Non-Zymotic Diseases.
Of this group diseases of the respiratory
Local Diseases.
organs produced the highest number of
deaths. The latter amounted to 128, were 16 above the
corrected average, and exceeded by one, the deaths from
diseases of the Zymotic class. Of respiratory diseases,
Bronchitis, which was the most fatal, caused 63 deaths,
and Pneumonia 46. The excess of fatality from these
diseases was for the most part borne by young children,
and was most probably attributable to the remote effect