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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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41
The deaths that took place in out-lying general and
special hospitals are given in the following table which
shows the nature of the cause of death, the age and sex
of the deceased and the character of the institution in
which they died.

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

TABLE II.

Deaths in Out-lying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small-pox..................
Scarter Fever4133..13
Diphtheria..................
Enteric Fever11....1....1..
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases22....2....2..
Tubercular Diseases642..6..15..
Cancer321..12..3..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases22......211..
Circulatory Diseases3..3..21l2..
Nervous Diseases734..6116..
Other Diseases936..4354..
Violence541..5....5..
Totals4222203309930

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There was a total of 42 deaths in extra parochial institutions,
22 of these were of males and 20 of females, 9
took place in the Union Infirmary, 30 in general and
special hospitals, and 3 in the Asylums Board Hospitals.
When these 42 deaths are added to the 410, that occurred
in Streatham, the death-rate is raised to 11.2 per
1,000 of the population, this rate cannot be held to be
correct, as it includes the deaths of non-parishoners who