London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.
Summary of Vital Statistics, 1907.
Estimated population 320,120.
Population, 1901 232,034
Population under 10 years of age, 1901 46,977
Recorded death-rate 10.24
Corrected death-rate 10.67
Birth-rate 21.97
Deaths under one year per 1,000 births 101
Diarrhœa.—Mortality per 1,000, all ages 20
Diarrhœa.—Death-rate per 1,000 births 9.23
Enteritis.—Mortality per 1,000 births 8.81
Small-Pox.—Deaths —
Rate per 1,000 —
Measles.— Deaths 68
Rate per 1,000 .21
Scarlet Fever.—Deaths 22
Rate per 1,000 .06
Diphtheria.—Deaths 41
Rate per 1,000 .12
Enteric Fever.—Deaths 10
Rate per 1,000 .03
Whooping Cough.—Deaths 105
Rate per 1,000 .32
Tubercular Phthisis—Deaths 261
Rate per 1,000 .81