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Battersea 1898

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

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number of deaths from each class of disease is shewn. The
zymotic death rate for 1898 was 3.0 per thousand persons.

TABLE XIII.

Comparative Table of Zymoiic Mortality during the past II years.

18881889189018911892189318941895189618971898
Small Pox.................................
Measles871041593790901519918576119
Scarlet Fever251210101517510576
Diphtheria22212735289067605245
Enteric, &c., Fevers1315211981413151188
Whooping Cough1198114610410011577521378271
Epidemic Diarrhœa751121211049912093151169141154
Other Zymotic Diseases22215989133118621044525114
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases363366543398473564468491602391517
Zymotic Death Rate2.62.53.62.63.03.52.82.93.62.33.0
Death-rates from all Diseases15.715.619.317.317.417.815.417.817.715.516.0

TABLE XIV.

Comparative Table of all non-zymotic causes of Deaths during the past 11 years.

18881889189018911892189318941895189618971898
Tubercular, including Phthisis342334320285237355304353374355376
Of Brain, Nerves, &c.223212261195259213211334211241181
Of the Heart, &c. Of the Respiratory Or113108148141183159173213182189164
gans,excluding Phthisis474391618572635653471623531439383
Of Digestive Organs113100118122112127197114154202168
Of Urinary Organs2439344972605756886975
Of Organs of Generation61415161514127221416
Of Joints, Bones, &c.9347236562
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c.175205206238256295273332298286288
Of Uncertain Seat Cancer, Syphilis, Dropsy, &c.79967089233130114108122141131
Age57527174122103118128207150317
Violence566077608110270102117118122
Constitutional.........212232040281922
Total16711614194218502219223720262410233922292245

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