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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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Table: TABLE I.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

TABLE I.Deaths in Outlying Institutions.

DISEASE.Total.Sex.Age.Institutions.
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 Diseases..................
Tubercular Diseases..................
Cancer11..1....1..
Rheumatism..................
Respiratory Diseases431..3113..
Circulatory Diseases1..1..1....1..
Nervous Diseases..................
Other Diseases21111....2..
Violence..................
Totals853161l7..

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Death recorded in Tooting.
Table II. will be found all the necessary
details as to age, sex, and causes of death
of persons resident in the district. 21 deaths were
of infants under 1 year of age, 18 over 60, and
8 of 80 years and upwards. Of the latter class one
was aged 80, one 84, three 85, one 86, one 87, and one
had attained the remarkable age of 101 years. As regards
class distribution, we find that 4 deaths took place
amongst the gentry, 10 in the professional and mercantile
classes, 37 in the middle and trading classes, and
42 in the industrial and labouring population. Once
again we have been visited by the scourge of Influenza.
3 deaths, all females, all over 60 years of age, are stated
to be due to this cause; though as 14 deaths are placed