Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 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.
DISEASE. | Total. | Sex. | Age. | Institutions. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male. | Female. | Under 1. | 1 to 60. | 60 and upwards. | Union Infirmary. | General & Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals. | ||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | .... | .... | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Enteric Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Whooping Cough | .. | .. | .... | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Tubercular Diseases | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 9 | .. | 3 | 7 | .. |
Cancer | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. |
Rheumatism | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Respiratory Diseases | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | .. |
Circulatory Diseases | 6 | 3 | 3 | .. | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | .. |
Nervous Diseases | 10 | 8 | 2 | .. | 8 | 2 | 4 | 6 | .. |
Other Diseases | 13 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 9 | .. | |
Violence | 6 | 5 | .. | .. | 5 | .. | .. | 5 | .. |
Totals | 61 | 39 | 22 | 3 | 43 | 15 | 22 | 36 | 3 |
There were 61 deaths in out-lying institutions, 39 of
these were of males and 22 of females, 22 occurred in the
Union Infirmary, 36 in general and special hospitals, and
3 in the Asylums Board Hospitals. When these 61
deaths are added to the deaths that were registered in
Streatham, the death-rate is raised to 13.2 per 1,000.
We have no record per contra of the deaths of nonparishioners
who died within the sub-district, but there
is reason to believe they nearly balance the extra
parochial deaths, therefore 11.5 may be accepted as the
true death-rate of Streatham for 1890.