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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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56
Deaths in
Outlying
Institutions.
Eleven deaths took place in outlying Institutions
during the year; two less than 1889.
Of these 7 were males and 4 females. Four took place
in the Union Infirmary and seven in General Hospitals.
The accompanying table I. gives particulars regarding
nature of disease, age, and sex of such deaths. It is satisfactory
to note that out of the eleven deaths only one
was due to Zymotic disease.

TABLE I.

Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Sex.Age.Institutions.
Total.Male.Female.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union InfirmaryGeneral & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small-pox..................
Scarlet Fever..................
Typhus Fever..................
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases1..1..1......1
Tubercular Diseases..................
Cancer22....1111..
Rheumatism1..1..1..1....
Respiratory Diseases11....1....1..
Circulatory Diseases11....1..1....
Nervous Diseases21l..2....2..
Other Diseases321..2l12..
Violence..................
Totals1174..9246l