View report page

Parish of Wandsworth.
135
From all Tubercular diseases, 143 deaths occurred,
37 more than in the year previous, and 23 above the
corrected decennial average.
In external institutions 23 deaths, and in internal 27
deaths occurred from these diseases, a corrected total of
142 compared with 116 in 1899, 118 in 1898, and 102 in
1897.
The total death-rate was 216 per 1,000, compared
with 1.81 in 1899, 1.96 in 1898, and 1.79 in 1897.
Consumption, or Tubercular disease of the lungs,
was the cause of 95 deaths, an increase of 18 compared
with the previous year. 23 deaths occurred in internal
institutions (21 in the Asylum, one in the Royal Hospital
for Incurables, and one, a man belonging to another
parish, died suddenly in the street).
In external institutions 20 deaths occurred (19 in
the Union Infirmary, and one in a general hospital).
The corrected total was 92, compared with 85 in
1899, 72 in 1898, and the death-rate was 1.4 in 1900,
1.35 in 1899, and 1.23 in 1897.
The increase in the number of deaths from Tubercular
disease of the lungs, although slight, is still a
matter for grave consideration. This parish is rapidly
increasing in density of population, and unless some
preventive measures are taken the rate will certainly
increase. Something has been done by the sanitary
authority, by the distribution of notices calling attention
to the infective nature of Consumption and the methods
that might be used to prevent it, but I am of opinion
that unless more stringent measures are taken, such as a
certain amount of isolation and disinfection of rooms
and houses where consumptives have lived and died,
the number of deaths will increase.