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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
Wimbledon 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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TABLE 3.
Table of Deaths during the Year 1898, in the Urban Sanitary District of Wimbledon, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
| Localities. Public Institutions being shown as separate localities | Mortality from all causes at subjoined ages. | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing deaths of children under 5 years of age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | Und'r 1 year. | 1 and und'r 5 | 5 and und'r 15 | 15 and und'r 25 | 25 and und'r 65 | 65 and upward- | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||
| Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Enteric or Typhoid Fever. | Puerperal. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea | and Dysentery, | Rheumatic Fever. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis Pneumonia and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Intiuenza. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | Total. | |||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (H) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||
| WIMBLEDON | 371 | 102 | 50 | 19 | 16 | 100 | 84 | Under 5 | 10 | l | 2 | 11 | 15 | 28 | 3 | 82 | 152 | |||||||
| 5 upwa'ds | 6 | 1 | 1 | l | 1 | 1 | 16 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 122 | 219 | |||||||||||
| ATKINSON MORLEY'S HOSPITAL | 5 | 2 | 3 | Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwa'ris | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| COTTAGE HOSPITAL | 1 | 1 | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwa'ds | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 377 | 102 | 50 | 19 | 19 | 103 | 84 | Under 5 | 10 | l | 2 | 11 | 15 | 28 | 3 | 82 | 152 | |||||||
| 5 upwa'ds | 6 | l | 1 | l | 1 | 1 | 16 | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 126 | 225 | |||||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also been taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto. | 6 | 3 | 3 | Under 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwards | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||