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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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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
BALHAM AND TOOTING.
The Census taken early in 1881 enables me to give
more accurate information regarding the health of the
district than has been possible hitherto. It will be remembered
that attention was drawn in former Reports
to the probable under-estimate of the population, which
would, in some degree, vitiate those Reports, and it is
now proved that I was right in assuming that the rate of
mortality was really far below the one given in those
Reports.
It is satisfactory to be able again to announce that
the health of the District, during the year 1880, compares
favourably with former years, and with that of the
healthiest localities. This is the case, notwithstanding
the fact that in a portion of the parish there was a somewhat
severe and fatal epidemic of Scarlet Fever; still the
general health of the people was good, and the deathrate
was below the ordinary low death-rate of this subdistrict.