Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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TABLE IV.
Showing the total Deaths from the Principal Epidemic Diseases registered in each Sub-District, and in the entire District, and the relation which they bore to the total Mortality in the several years 1870-80.
Years. | deaths from the sete5 principal Epidemics in each Site-District. | Entire District. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clapham. | Battersea. | Wandsworth. | Putney. | Streatham. | Total Deaths from the Seven Epidemic*. | Total Deaths Registered from all causes. | Percentage of Deaths from the Seven Epidemics to Total Deaths. | |
1870 | 119 | 101 | 113 | 19 | 37 | 692 | 2659 | 260 |
1871 | 178 | 463 | 103 | 32 | 31 | 807 | 2867 | 28.8 |
1872 | 128 | 220 | 47 | 20 | 31 | 446 | 2421 | 18.4 |
1873 | 65 | 205 | 43 | 6 | 32 | 351 | 2580 | 13.6 |
1871 | 114 | 238 | 52 | 10 | 26 | 440 | 2796 | 15.7 |
1875 | 74 | 307 | 46 | 20 | 25 | 472 | 3096 | 15.2 |
1876 | 86 | 340 | 71 | 19 | 31 | 547 | 3154 | 17.4 |
1877 | 55 | 280 | 57 | 22 | 25 | 439 | 2991 | 14.2 |
1878 | 103 | 322 | 38 | 26 | 42 | 531 | 3275 | 16.9 |
1879 | 81 | 355 | 92 | 20 | 36 | 584 | 3526 | 16.9 |
1880 | 112 | 383 | 78 | 25 | 61 | 659 | 3593 | 18.3 |
*** The Diseases included in the above Table constitute, as in the RegistrarGeneral's
Returns, the principal maladies only of the Zymotic class—viz.: Small
Pox, Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea and Cholera,
and Fever