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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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TABLE IV.

Zymotic Mortality in the Streatham Sub-district.

18801881188218831884188518861887188818891890
Small-pox......................
Measles1357821121..512
Scarlet Fever3113928....451..
Diphtheria7141335673061
Enteric Fever52984632114
Typhus Fever..............1......
Whooping Cough891119726622934
Epidemic Diarrhœa69391112201613815
Other Zymotic Diseases1091015112173213
Influenza......................
Total deaths from Zymotic Diseases6846416554316764743279
Zymotic Death-rate.2.711.71-62-31-81-12-11-61-70.81-8
Death-rate from all Diseases13.912-112.614.915.313.915.011.611.410.211.5

Though the total number of deaths from Zymotic
Diseases exceeded the decennial average, They were
chiefly due to the less formidable diseases of the Infectious
Class, and those which as yet are not included
in the Notification Act, viz:—Whooping Cough, Measles,
and Influenza, these three diseases caused 56 of the 79
deaths. On the other hand there was no death from
either Small Pox or Scarlet Fever and only one from
Diphtheria. The death rate of those Zymotic Diseases
which are included in the Infectious Diseases Notification
Act was 0.19.
Other Diseases.
These are grouped under five heads in the
Mortality Table. The percentage of deaths from some
of the diseases under these heads is as follows :—
Class II. Tubercular 10.1, Cancer 5.2. There was
a decrease in the Tubercular Diseases, and
an increase of 1 per cent. in Cancer, as compared
with the previous year.