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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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84
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The death-rate from notifiable diseases was equal to
0.3 per 1,000 of the population.
other Diseases. The following table shows the proportion of
deaths, classified as constitutional, local, developmental,
violence, and all other diseases in the Mortality Table,
and is comparative of the past eight years :—

Table: TABLE VI.Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.

TABLE VI.

Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.

CAUSES OF DEATH.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.
Constitutional.Tubercular6049414239394343
Other Constitutional Diseases2134383439363961
Local.Nervous7768777272576760
Circulatory3728463546376669
Respiratory659512711111782121103
Digestive3529363233333824
Urinary1313131914181923
Generative73..472..6
Locomotory....261....2
Integumentary....1..........
Developmental.Premature Birth Low Vitality4445414567404856
Congenital defects Age2040294052543747
Violence9951110171117
All other Diseases..31..52....

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Upon many diseases, comment is unnecessary by
reason of their being of about the average mortality.
Deaths from respiratory and digestive diseases show
a slight decrease, whereas those from premature birth,
age and violence, an appreciable increase.
Ages at Death. The number of deaths under one year of age
was 176; under five, 234, and under twenty-five, 283.