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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 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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Parish of Clapham.
whooping cough. There were 18 deaths referred to this disease,
compared with 6 in the previous year.
This is a number far below the decennial average.
Diarrhœa. As was to he expected from the very hot
summer and autumn, there was a large number
of deaths caused by Diarrhœa. The number was
55, and is the largest in the decennium; the next largest
being in 1897, when it was 47.
There were 20 deaths, an increase on the
Influenza. There were 20 deaths, an increase on the two previous years, showing that we had
more of this disease than since 1895. The deaths were
all actually due to lung affections coming on as complications
to an attack of Influenza.