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Parish of Wandsworth.
Phthisis; male, seven weeks, exhaustion from nonassimilation
of food; male, 44 years, Pulmonary Haemorrhage;
female, 19 months, Diphtheria; male, six hours,
Prematurity, Exhaustion.
General
Remarks.
The death-rate for the year, viz.:—16.31 per
1000 is a higher rate than last year, but is
lower than the death-rate of the Metropolis, which was
18.3 per 1,000. This increase was almost wholly due to
the number of deaths of infants under one year from
Diarrhœa and diseases of the digestive organs. These
deaths occurred principally during the months of July,
August, and September, when the temperature was high,
and the temperature of the earth correspondingly high.
It is a well known fact that when this latter temperature
is above 60° E. the deaths from Diarrhoea increase
markedly, and this year for 11 weeks in the above
mentioned months the earth temperature was above
00° E. During the rest of the year the number of deaths
was below the average, and the general health of the
parish very good.
Sanitation.
Table XIII. in the general report tabulates
the amount of sanitary work carried out by
the sanitary inspectors during the year.
There were 3,391 houses and premises inspected,
compared with 4,597 in 1897, and 3,948 in 1896.
The total number of houses inspected in house-tohouse
inspection was 1,338, compared with 2,325 in 1897,
1,985 in 1896, and 2,079 in 1895.
A large proportion of the time of the sanitary in.
spectors was taken up with inspection of drains of new
houses, and this accounts for the diminution in the total
number of houses inspected during the year, as well as
for the large decrease in house-to-house inspection.