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Wandsworth 1892

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

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TABLE IV.

Table: Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Rochampton Sub-district.

Zymotic Mortality in Putney and Rochampton Sub-district.

Zymotic Mortality.1883188418851886188718881889189018911892
Influenza..................6
Puerperal Fever............21..2
Small Pox..1................
Measles21442..210....
Scarlet Fever7....11..1..1..
Enteric Fever21031..21111
Diphtheria24..5112........
Whooping Cough281182668817
Diarrhœa and Dysentery5849..4....410
Other Zymotic Diseases2..1812..17..
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases4428184271612212136
Zymotic Death-rate3.11.91.22.490.441.00.731.11.11.9
Death-rate for all Diseases17.113.711.211.812.511.711.112.411.913.6

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Influenza.—Six deaths were attributed primarily to this
disease. A good many others were doubtless caused by it
indirectly. This peculiar disorder has been epidemic with
us for the last three years. Daring that time it has never
been quite extinct, and the three annual epidemics of the
last three years could more properly be called three
annual exacerbations of the one epidemic. There has
been no fortnight during the last three years, in which
deaths have not occurred in London from this disease. In
my experience, however, the type of the disease in 1892
was of a milder character than during the two former
years.