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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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33
Deaths in
Out-lying
Institutions.
Besides those deatlis registered within the
parish I present in a tabular form all those
deaths of inhabitants of this sub-district, which have
taken place in out-lying public institutions.

Table: TABLE II.

TABLE II.

DISEASES.TotalSex.Age.Institutions,
Males.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.tTnion Infirmary.Gencralv&; Special Hospitals.Asylum Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Diphtheria211..2....2..
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
tubercular Diseases11....1....1..
Cancer1..1....1..1..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases725..4343..
Circulatory Diseases523..2323..
Nervous Diseases1..1....11....
Other Diseases105524446..
Violence11....1....1..
Totals281216214121117..

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The number of such deaths is slightly below that of
the preceding year. If these be added to those registered
within the district, it gives us a death-rate of 12.8 per
thousand as compared with 13.5 for the previous year,
and 14.3 in the year 1887.
General
tality in
Putney and
Roehampton.
In Table III. all deaths registered in the
sub-district are recorded and classified according
to the cause, under the heading of ago, sex, and
social position.