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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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Ceased Were also attacked and s&Verly injured. They
were sent to Paris and placid under the charge of Mr.
Pasteur and since their return, now some months ago,
have remained free from all unfavourable syptoms.

Table: TABLE I.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE I.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Total.Male.Female,Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small-pox..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles11......1..1..
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases21111....2..
Cancer11....1....1..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases22....2....2..
Circulatory Diseases422..3122..
Nervous Diseases1. .1..1....1..
Other Diseases211..112....
Violence..................
Totals138519349..

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Deaths
occuring
in Tooting.
In table II all deaths recorded in Tooting are
stated according to sex, age, and social position
with the causes of death. Twenty one deaths occurred
in infants under one year of age, 20 over 60 years, and 7
from 80 years and upwards. Four deaths occurred
amongst ttie gentry, 7 in the professional and mercantile
classes, 29 in the middle and trading class, and 38 in the
labouring population. Of five deaths 2 took place at 80
years of age, 1 at 84 years, 1 at 85, and 1 at 90 years of
age.