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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
Wandsworth 1896
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896
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Parish of Clapham.
Deaths from Non-zymotic Diseases.
The appended table gives the number of deaths in
the last 10 years, and shows whether these for 1893 are
above or below the decennial average corrected for
increase of population.
TABLE VI
| 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | Number below corrected decennial average. | Number below corrected decennial average. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gout and Rheumatism | 3 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | .. | 1 |
| Cancer and other Tumours | 23 | 30 | 18 | 21 | 29 | 32 | 26 | 28 | 40 | 42 | 42 | 11 | .. |
| Other Constitutional Diseases | 6 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | .. | 2 | 7 | 3 | |
| T ubercular | 77 | 75 | 68 | 69 | 79 | 71 | 90 | 67 | 06 | 61 | 78 | .. | .. |
| Nervous | 79 | 81 | 70 | 74 | 77 | 74 | 54 | 68 | 53 | 72 | 57 | .. | 19 |
| Circulatory | 35 | 52 | 49 | 56 | 57 | 59 | 62 | 48 | 61 | 58 | 72 | 15 | .. |
| Respiratory | 103 | 110 | 103 | 105 | 139 | 125 | 116 | 113 | 88 | 146 | 89 | .. | 36 |
| Digestive | 39 | 46 | 41 | 18 | 26 | 32 | 36 | 34 | 38 | 22 | 24 | .. | 12 |
| Urinary | 16 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 22 | 13 | 15 | 16 | .. | .. |
| Generative | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | .. | 5 | 7 | 4 | .. |
| Locomotory | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | I | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
| Integumentary | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Premature Birth, LowVitality,&c. | 28 | 46 | 49 | 50 | 44 | 48 | 51 | 58 | 47 | 52 | 50 | .. | 1 |
| Old Age | 33 | 18 | 34 | 37 | 27 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 26 | 14 | .. | 11 |
| Violence | 12 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 24 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 14 | .. | 1 |
| III-defined and Not Specified | 1 | •• | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
The deaths from Cancer numbered 42, and were 11
above the corrected decennial average. There were a
number of deaths at the Home for the Dying (9) which
did not properly belong to Clapham and therefore the
real increase is very slight.
Tubercular Diseases.—Numbered 78 and were exactly
the average. This includes Consumption, and again
deaths of non-parishioners come in here at the same
home.