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

  • Wandsworth (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1870
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 WANDSWORTH. An examination of the public records of Sickness and Mortality shews that the health of this Sub-district during the year 1869, as in the year previous, suffered considerably from the effects of Epidemic disease, that the amount of general disease was great, and the mortality exceptionally high. A portion of this heightened mortality was due (as will be seen further on) to the occurrence of a greater number of deaths than usual in the public institu tions, whose inmates, it should be remembered, are derived from without the Parish, and for the most part subject to a very high mortality; but the bulk of it resulted from the Epidemics which afflicted this locality in common with the rest of the Metropolis, and indeed the whole country, and the propagation of which cannot be regarded, therefore, as attributable to any specially local causes. The total deaths which were registered as having occurred in this Sub-district during the past year were 429 in number, which is greater by 47 than the corrected average of the previous ten years; 237 were of males and 192 of females. Ninety-eight occurred in the following public institutions, viz. :—In the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 66; in the House of Correction, 12; in St. Peter's Hos pital, 3; in the Hospital for Incurables, 12; in the Patriotic Asylum for Boys, 1; in the Patriotic Asylum for Girls, 2; and in the Reformatory for Boys, 2. The average number in such institutions during the previous