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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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The following Table shows the months in which the
deaths from the seven principal epidemic diseases occurred
and the total number in each quarter in relation to its
mean temperature. With the exception of the second
quarter, in which the temperature was 0.6° above the
average of 50 years, the temperature of the other quarters
was 1.7° below that average. The deaths in each of the
first three quarters exceeded those in the fourth by
considerably more than two-thirds in number:—
| DISEASE. | January. | February. | March. | April. | May. | June. | July. | August. | September. | October. | November. | December. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Temp. 37.5° | Mean Temp, 53.4° | Mean Temp 59.2° | Mean Temp. 42.3° | |||||||||
| Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Measles | 1 | .. | 2 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Scarlatina | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. |
| Diphtheria | 3 | .. | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Whooping Cough | 8 | 5 | 9 | 4 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Diarrhoea | 2 | 2 | 3 | .. | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Fever | 1 | •• | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | •• | 1 |
| Totals | 15 | 7 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 38 | 41 | 37 | 11 | |||||||||
Non-zymotic Diseases.
The deaths resulting from these diseases constitute the
great bulk of the mortaliy. They formed 651 of the 838
deaths registered.
The most fatal of the group were diseases of the organs
of respiration numbering 144, 88 being contributed by
bronchitis and 56 by pneumonia and its allied affections.
Next in order of fatality was the Constitutional class of
diseases, which includes Gout and Rheumatism, Cancer and