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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 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table: TABLE IV.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE IV.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

CAUSES OF DEATH.Number in Entire District.Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Union Infirmary.General and Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever60..4..2..15
Diphtheria126......4..75
Enteric Fever2....1..1..11
Whooping Cough42......231..
Measles21....1....2..
Other Zymotic Diseases92..2..536..
Tubercular Diseases52181622527241
Cancer217l319813..
Rheumatism10....01..2..
Respiratory Diseases3387221419131
Circulatory Diseases28934717110
Nervous Diseases39111711918183
Other Diseases622110922041201
Violence1561503312..
Total2869128421311214012917
Corresponding Totals in preceding year328107406312817421341

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Through the Registrar General's Office we are enabled
in table IV. to give the number of such deaths and to
classify them according to the Parishes from which they
come and to the different institutions in which death
took place. Here again as in the general mortality tables
there are fewer deaths registered than in the preceding
year. The total number of such deaths recorded
was 286 while in the year 1888 there were 328. If these
280 deaths be added to the number registered within the