Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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In addition to those registered the following deaths
occurred in Hospitals and other Institutions situated
without the sub-district, and are recorded in the following
Table, which shews their number and where they
took place. They amounted to 166, viz.:—In the
Infirmary of the Union, 100; in the Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums' Board, 25 ; and 43 in General
and Special Hospitals. The number is 13 in excess of
that of the previous year.
DISEASE. | No. | Sex. | Age. | Institutions. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male. | Female. | Under 1. | 1 to 60. | 60 and upwards. | Union Infirmary. | General and Special Hospitals. | Asylums Board Hospitals | ||
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Diphtheria | 5 | 2 | 3 | .. | 5 | .. | .. | l | 4 |
Whooping-Cough | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
Influenza | 4 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | 3 | l | .. |
Enteric Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diarrhoea | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
Other Zymotic Diseases. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Total Zymotic Diseases | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
Tubercular Diseases | 24 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 2 |
Cancer | 13 | 5 | 8 | .. | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | .. |
Rheumatism | • • | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Respiratory Diseases | 32 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 25 | 6 | 1 |
Circulatory Diseases | 17 | 6 | 11 | .. | 7 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 |
Nervous Diseases | 32 | 22 | 10 | .. | 15 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 13 |
Other Diseases | 17 | 7 | 10 | .. | 9 | 3 | 11 | 6 | .. |
Violence | 4 | 2 | 2 | .. | 4 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. |
Age | 15 | 6 | 9 | .. | .. | 15 | 14 | .. | 1 |
Total | 166 | 78 | 88 | 10 | 78 | 78 | 100 | 43 | 23 |