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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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The deaths that resulted from the seven principal
epidemic and other diseases of the Zymotic class during
the past and ten preceding years, with the relative proportion
which they bore to the deaths from all causes, are
shewn in the following table; the increase and decrease
of deaths in 1889 are also compared with the annual
average number in the ten years 1879-88, raised in proportion
to increase of population:—

Table: TABLE V. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

TABLE V. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

Diseases.18791880188118821883188418851886188718881 891889.
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average
Seven principal Epidemic Diseases.Small Pox1..9....13..........1.6
Measles169518146192820397..13
Scarlet Fever1524199553614....10
Diphtheria14431146102661..
FeverTyphus Enteric861912448654..3.7
Whooping Cough4415122651724318406..19
Diarrhœa Cholera720192910273528303221..6
Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases927869945764941116712544..55
Other Zymotic Diseases1214714201935423..8
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases10492761087783971167112747..64
Zymotic Deathrate per 1,000 population4 143.352-713.722.572.703.073.582.143.731.35..2.39
Total Deaths from all causes516484507544499576628722610711494..180
Per ceiitage of Deaths from Epidemics to Deaths from all causes17.816.113.617.211.411.114.915.310.917.58.90..8.09