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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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25
Deaths in
Outlying'
Institutions.
Table III. gives the number, ages, and causes
of death of persons previously living in Clapham,
who have died during the year in Institutions outside
the parish. These institutions include the Union
Infirmary, General and Special Hospitals, Hospitals of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board, County and other
Lunatic Asylums. There were 91 such deaths registered,
47 in the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary,
40 in the General and Special Hospitals, and 4 in the
Asylums Board Hospitals. If these are added to the
number of deaths occurring in the parish the death-rate
becomes 13.5 as compared with 14.9 in 1888.

Table: TABLE III.Deaths in Out-lying Institutions.

TABLE III.

Deaths in Out-lying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.(30 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylum Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Diphtheria642..6....24
Enteric Fever................
Whooping Cough21111..2....
Measles1..101....1..
Other Zymotic Diseases2..211..l1..
tubercular Diseases18108114399..
Cancer725..3434..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases844l2553..
Circulatory Diseases918..4581..
Nervous Diseases1174..6556..
Other Diseases21813498138..
Violence633..5115..
Total9140518523147404