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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 1891

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

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1ll
Deaths in
Out-lying
Institutions.
The following Table gives particulars of
these deaths occurring in various Institutions
outside the Sub-district. There were 97 such deaths,
of which 50 occurred in the Union Infirmary at Wandsworth,
40 in the general and special hospitals of the
Metropolis, 4 in the hospitals of the Asylums Board, and
3 from accidents before reaching hospital. If these 97
deaths are added to those of Table II. the death-rate
becomes 15.8:—

Table: TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE III.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASES.Sex.Age.Institutions.
TotalMales.Females.Under 1.1 to 60.60 and upwards.Union Infirmary.General & Special Hospitals.Asylums Board Hospitals.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Feverl..1..l......l
Diphtheria..................
Enteric Fever..................
Whooping Cough..................
Measles..................
Other Zymotic Diseases22....112....
Tubercular Diseases945..9..63..
Cancer826..71431
Rheumatism2..2..1l2....
Respiratory Diseases1711619789..
Circulatory Diseases1468..41085..
Nervous Diseases1477..95752
Other Diseases22121011011139..
Violence88....44..6..
Totals9752452554050404

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Ages at
Death.
The number of deaths at the different age
groups is shewn in Table II. From this it is