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Battersea 1899

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1899

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other than those included in the zymotic class, as follows:—368
tubercular, 241 brain and nerve, 252 circulatory, 540 respiratory,
194 digestive 73 urinary, 12 generative, 6 locomotory, 297 from
premature birth and low vitality, 259 from age, 96 from violence
and 146 from other constitutional diseases (including cancer
and syphilis) and all other diseases. The following table compares
the non-zymotic mortality of the past ten years.

Table: TABLE XIX. Comparative Table of all non-zymolic causes of Deaths during the past 10 years.

TABLE XIX. Comparative Table of all non-zymolic causes of Deaths during the past 10 years.

1890189118921893189418951896189718991899
Tubercular, including Phthisis320285237355304353374355376368
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.261195259213211334211241181241
Of the Heart. &c.148141183159173213182189164252
Of the Respiratory Organs, excluding Phthisis618572635653471623531439383540
Of Digestive Organs118122112127197114154202168194
Of Urinary Organs34497260575688697570
Of Organs ofGeneration1516151412722141612
Of Joints, Bones, &c.472365626
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c206238256295273332298286288297
Other Constitutional Diseases (including Cancer, Syphilis,&c.) and all other Diseases7091245153134148150160i53146
Age7174122103118128207150317259
Violence7760811027010211711812296
Total1942185022192237202624102339222922452481

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Tubercular It will be seen that a slight reduction in mortality
Diseases.
within the Parish has taken place in regard to
tubercular diseases As however the subject is very fully dealt
with in a later stage of the report (pages 62 to 78), further
comment here is unnecessary.
Local Deaths from Brain diseases, although higher than
Diseases
the preceding year, are exactly equal to those of the
year 1897 and do not vary much from the average of the past ten