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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 VI.

TABLE VI.

DISEASE.JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
Mean Temp. 37.6Mean Temp. 51.6Mean Temp. 59.3Mean Temp. 45.0
Small-pox........................
Measles11..............1..6
Scarlatina........1..............
Diphtheria..1....161..1..18
Whooping Cough12....3121113
Diarrhoea11........587..3..
Fever..1..2..........2....
Totals3652668984517
14142526

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It will be found that the deaths in the third and fourth
quarters very greatly exceeded the numbers in the other
quarters, and that the excess was principally due to
Infantile Diarrhoea in the third, and to Measles and
Diphtheria in the fourth. The mean temperature of the
three first quarters was 1.2° below the average of the
past 50 years; that of the fourth quarter was higher
than the average by 0.8°, the mean temperature of
the year having been 48.4° or 0.8° below the average.
A noticeable feature in the Table is that the periods of
lowest temperature are associated with the lowest number
of deaths.
Non-Zymotic Diseases.
Of the total 780 causes of death 659 belonged to this
group. The number is no less than 271 more than in
the previous year.
This great increase was principally due to
Respiratory Diseases.
diseases of the Organs of Respiration, which
were the most fatal of all the classes in this group. They