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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

Battersea 1895

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1895

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Table: Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality during the past II years.

Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality during the past II years.

18851886188718881889189018911892189318941895
Small-Pox2_-__--_--_
Measles11270828710415937909015199
Scarlet Fever81468251210101517510
Diphtheria109232221273528906760
Enteric, &c. Fevers182317131521198141315
Whooping Cough121104112119811461041001157752
Epidemic Diarrhœa126152175751121211049912093151
Other Zymotic Diseases3526252221598913311862104
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases432398502363366543398473564468491
Zymotic Death Rate3·43·03·72·62·53·62·63·03· 52·82·9
Death-rates from all Diseases20·419·018· 215·715·619·317·217·217·414·617·1

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Table XIII. This table gives the non-zymotic mortality
for the last eleven years, and shews that the mortality from this
source during 1895 was the highest during the period. This
was undoubtedly due to the rigorous climate of the earlier
months of the year when, as shewn in Table IV., the mortality
was excessive. The high death rate from diseases of the
respiratory and other organs, greatly due to the influenza
epidemic, greatly increased, as in 1892 and 1893, the mortality)
or a decrease of non-zymotic fatality would have been shewn.

Table: TABLE XIII. Comparative Table of all non-zymotic cases of Deaths during the past 11 years.

TABLE XIII. Comparative Table of all non-zymotic cases of Deaths during the past 11 years.

18851886188718881889189018911892189318941895
Tubercular, including Phthisis420439367342334320285237355304353
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.282289280223212261195259213211334
Of the Heart, &c.159159128113108148141183159173213
Of the Respiratory Organs,excluding Phthisis630584528474391618572635653471623
Of Digestive Organs889686113100118122112127197114
Of Urinary Organs.4631532439344972605756
Of Organs of Generation23141961415161514127
Of Joints, Bones, &c.820309347236—
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.137175202175205206238256295273332
Of Urcertain Seat Cancer, Syphilis, Dropsy, &c.10510610579967089233130114108
Age76998857527174122103118128
Violence616363566077608110270102
Constitutional45————212232040
Total20392080194916711614194218502219223719362410