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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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The following Table exhibits the total deaths that
occurred from Zymotic diseases, specifying those that
were due to the seven principal Epidemic diseases during
the past and ten preceding years, and the relative
proportion which they bore to the deaths from all causes.
It also shews the increase and decrease of such deaths in
1890 compared with the annual average number in the
ten years 1880-89, raised in proportion to increase of
population:—
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
| Diseases. | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1890. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above corrected average. | No. below corrected average. | ||||||||||||||
| Small Pox.. | .. | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1.6 | ||
| Measles .... | 9 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 19 | 28 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 47 | 26 | .. | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 24 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | •• | 10 | ||||
| Diphtheria | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 3 | .. | ||
| Typhus Enteric | 6 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | .. | 2.5 | ||
| Whooping Cough | 15 | 12 | 26 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 31 | 8 | 40 | 6 | 35 | 12 | .. | ||
| Diarrhoea Cholera | 20 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 21 | 37 | 5 | .. | ||
| Total Deaths from above Epidemic Diseases | 78 | 69 | 94 | 57 | 64 | 94 | 111 | 67 | 125 | 44 | 134 | 32 | .. | ||
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 14 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | .. | .. | ||
| Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 92 | 76 | 108 | 77 | 83 | 97 | 116 | 71 | 127 | 47 | 145 | 32 | .. | ||
| Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000 population | 3.35 | 2.71 | 3.72 | 2.57 | 2.70 | 3.07 | 3.58 | 2.14 | 3.73 | 1.35 | 3.2 | = | = | ||
| Total Deaths from all causes | 484 | 507 | 544 | 499 | 576 | 628 | 722 | 610 | 711 | 494 | 787 | 55 | .. | ||
| Percentage of Deaths from Epidemics to Deaths from all causes | 16.1 | 13.6 | 17.2 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 10.9 | 17.5 | 8.90 | 17.0 | .. | 0.6 | ||