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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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K 2 11 TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1892, in the Wandsworth Sub.District of the Metropolitan (B) Sanitary District of Wandsworth ; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. (a)Population at all AgesRegistered (d) Births.Aged under 5 or over 5. (e)New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital.
(b) Census 1891.(c) Estimated to middle of 1892.123451 01 71 «i »101112IS123451 6! 71 8i »10111213
Smallpox.Scarlatina.|Diphtheria. jMembranous 1 Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous 1 Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.| Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
Middlesex Lunatic Asylum1250Under 5
5 upwds....................8..................••..........
Hospital for Incurables256Under 5
5 upwds
St. Peter's Hospital60Under 5
5 upwds
Workhouse565Under 51........................1......................
5 upwds1................6......1......................
Prison1007Under 5....
5 upwds........3....................................
Patrootic Asylum for Girls331Under 5.
5 upwds41......1........1..................
The rest of the Sub.District43221Under 55930....2........11......228....1........1....
5 upwds2017512..214..5..106......7826......................
Total46720180321535Under 513012..2........11......238....1........1....
5 upwds30275....254..5..121......120......................

Note—State here whether " Notification of Infectious Disease" is compulsory in the District. Yes. Since when? November, 1889.
Besides the above.mentioned Diseases, insert in the columns with blank headings the names in the District, and fill the columns accordingly.
State here the name of the Isolation Hospital used by the sick of the District.
Mark (H) the Locality in which such Hospital is situated ; and if not within the District, state where it is situated—Hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board.