London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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There were 54 deaths in outlying institutions as
against 38 of the previous year, 25 were of males and 29
of females, being 463 and 537 per cent. respectively of
the total deaths. In the Wandsworth and Clapham
Union Infirmary 23 deaths or 42. per cent, of the total
deaths occurred, 2J. or M'l per cent, in the general and
special hospitals and 7 or 13'0 per cent, in the hospitals
and institutions of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Fourteen or 26-1 per cent, were under 5 years of age
and 17 or 3T5 per cent, above the age of 65 years.
The usual table of statistics of mortality is given in
Table III. on the next page.
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