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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COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
| Diseases. | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1891. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above corrected average. | No. below corrected average. | ||||||||||||||
| Small Pox | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1.7 | ||
| Measles | 5 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 19 | 28 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 47 | 10 | .. | 16 | ||
| Scarlet | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 4 | ||
| Fever | |||||||||||||||
| Dinhtheria | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 13 | .. | ||
| Typhus | 1 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | .. | 2 | ||
| Enteric | |||||||||||||||
| Whooping | 12 | 26 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 31 | 8 | 40 | 6 | 35 | 18 | .. | 7 | ||
| Cough | |||||||||||||||
| Diarrhoea | 19 | 29 | 10 | 27 | 35 | 28 | 30 | 32 | 21 | 37 | 25 | .. | 9 | ||
| Cholera | |||||||||||||||
| Total Deaths from above Epidemio Diseases | 69 | 94 | 57 | 64 | 94 | 111 | 67 | 125 | 44 | 134 | 81 | .. | 39 | ||
| Other Zymotic Diseases | 7 | 14 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 5 | .. | ||
| Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 76 | 108 | 77 | 83 | 97 | 116 | 71 | 127 | 47 | 145 | 97 | .. | 24 | ||
| Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000 population | 2.71 | 3.72 | 2.57 | 2.70 | 3.07 | 3.58 | 2.14 | 3.73 | 1.35 | 3.2 | 2 | .. | 1.3 | ||
| Total Deaths from all causes | 507 | 544 | 499 | 576 | 628 | 722 | 610 | 711 | 494 | 787 | 780 | .. | .. | ||
| Percentage of Deaths from Epidemics to Deaths from all causes | 13.6 | 17.2 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 14.9 | 15.3 | 10.9 | 17.5 | 8.90 | 17.0 | 10.3 | .. | 7.3 | ||
* Inclusive of 15 from Influenza.