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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 1890

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

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37
Deaths and
Death-rate.
234 deaths were registered, 119 males and
115 females. This gives us a death-rate of 13.1
per 1,000 per annum, which is also the highest deathrate
we have had since the year 1884.
Deaths in
outlying
Institutions.
Table II. gives us the number of deaths of
inhabitants of this sub-district occurring in
institutions beyond our boundaries.

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.GO and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Diphtheria11....1....l..
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases413..4....4..
Cancer..................
Rheumatism312..12..21
Respiratory Diseases835233341
Circulatory Diseases1..1... .11....
Nervous Diseases514..3214..
Other Diseases1610649379..
Violence55....41..4..
Total4322216251212282

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This number is also very much higher than that of the
preceding year, and when added to those which occurred
within the district gives us a death-rate of 15.5 per 1,000
per annum.
General Mortality
in
Putney and
Roehampton.
All deaths which occurred during the year
are classified in Table III according to the
under the three headings of age, sex
and social position.