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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 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Births and Birth-rate.—The births registered
during the year were 1082, of whom 556 were males
and 526 females. The birth-rate was 29 7 per 1000
or 2.97 per cent.
Deaths and Death-rate.—The total number of
deaths registered during the year 1880 was 544, of
whom 263 were males and 281 females, giving a deathrate
of 14.9 per 1,000, or 1.49 per cent. This low rate
is most satisfactory to this parish, and indicates an
increased healthiness of the district.

Table: As in my former reports, I again express the hope that these preventible diseases— the opprobrium of medical science—may be steadily diminished, if not ultimately exterminated.

As in my former reports, I again express the hope that these preventible diseases— the opprobrium of medical science—may be steadily diminished, if not ultimately exterminated.

Years.18701871187218731874187518761877187818791880
Small-pox694140021412302
Measles1423011203135231719
Scarlatina4520623322134121221
Diphtheria2333460• • •313
Whooping-cough918251415171712292525
Typhus,&c.121011106254594
Diarrhœa3131392527222418261736
& Cholera————————2—2
Totals1191781286510574865510381112