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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 Streatham. 69
Diphtheria was again the largest contributor to
deaths from Zymotic Diseases. 23 of the deaths occurred
in the Institutions of the Wandsworth and Clapham
Union, 52 in general and special hospitals (including
lunatic asylums), 24 in the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board and 2 elsewhere.
Six Coroner's inquests were held in connection with
deaths in outlying institutions with the following
verdicts:—
Violence:—
Accidental Causes. .Injury from Fall (male).
Burns (female).
Scalds (male).
Run over (male).
Injury from Fall (male).
Hœmorrhage during
Childbirth (female).
The following Table, which indicates the nature of
the cause of death, the age and sex of the deceased, and
the character of the institution in which death occurred,
includes all parishioners dying in outlying general
and special hospitals within the Metropolis and the
Workhouse Infirmary.