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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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Causes of
Mortality.
Table VI. gives us the general summary of
all deaths registered within the district and
classified according to sex, age and social position. The
examination of the details of this table reveals a state of
things which must be regarded as highly satisfactory
from a Sanitary point of view.
(I.) Zymotic
Disease.
In order to compare these years together, in regard to the prevalence of Zymotic Diseases, the relative numbers for that time are set forth in table VII.
| Whole District. | Clapham. | Putney. | Streatham. | Tooting. | Wandsworth. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1888. | 1889. | 1888. | 1880 | 1888. | 1889. | 1888. | 1889. | 1889. | 1888. | 1889. | |
| Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 304 | 169 | 84 | 66 | 16 | 12 | 77 | 32 | 12 | 127 | 47 |
| Zymotic Death-rate | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.73 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 3.7 | 1.3 |
| Death-rate from all Diseases | 13.4 | 11.6 | 12.4 | 11.6 | 11.7 | 11.1 | 11.4 | 0.2 | 13.1 | 18.0 | 11.8 |
One cannot fail to be struck with the enormous diminution
in the mortality arising from this class of diseases.
The total number of deaths was not much more than
half of those occurring in the previous year. This being
the first year in which Tooting stands by itself, it is interesting
to note, that its Zymotic and General Deathrate
are both higher than those of any other sub-district.