London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

29
Infantile
Death-rate.
The proportion of deaths of infants under
one year to each thousand births was 149,
which is higher than last year, when the rate was 115.

Table: The proportion of deaths in the various social grades was as follows:—

The proportion of deaths in the various social grades was as follows:—

Nobility and Gentry3.7 per cent.
Professional Classes9.7 ,,
Middle and Trading Classes21.5 „
Industrial and Labouring Classes65.1 ,,

Table: TABLE IV.Lymoiic Mortality in Clapham.

TABLE IV.

Lymoiic Mortality in Clapham.

1881188218831884188518861887188818891890
Influenza..................4
Small-pox71..2..... .. .... .
Measles1015333331125141117
Scarlet Fever152683..16522
Diphtheria3478461016174
Enteric Fever3734834543
Whooping-Cough13171615253425281516
Epidemic Diarrhœa2041918162524151118
Other Zymotic Diseases772612546143
Total death from ZymoticDiseases7881112956184100846467
Zymotic Death-rate2.12.12.92.31.492.02.21.91.41.53
Death-rate from all Diseases13.514.515.113.712.412.913.912.411.613.88

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Zymotic
Diseases.
Table IV. gives the number of deaths from
Diseases.
the various Zymotic diseases, with the Zymotic
and general death-rates for the last 10 years.
The number of deaths was 67 and the death-rate
1.53 indicating a very satisfactory condition as to comparative
freedom from these diseases.