London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Parish of Wandsworth.
121

Table: TABLE VIII.Comparative Table of Non-Zymotic Mortality.

TABLE VIII.

Comparative Table of Non-Zymotic Mortality.

Diseases.188618871888188918901891189218931894189518961896
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
Constitutional.Tubercular87111114729910787799712189..37
Other Constitutional303230324831543651346716.7..
Local.Nervous1511151129010310412311011112284..66
Circulatory463245264639575752518928.3..
Respiratory13511012887177201144184128140122..63
Digestive303034314251346251567215.2..
Urinary2617221717223628242221..8.5
Generative42556996958.3..
Locomotory..1..222.............89
Integumentary....1..1..1......1.5..
Developmental.Premature Birth Malformation Low Vitality4538413654666072588271...65
Age323625332427262938535210..
Violence17132315272418252317293.1..
Ill-defined or Not specified32412224..1....2.6

Text

Copy text to clipboard

The above were the cause of 705 deaths compared
with 704 last year. They formed 79.5 per cent. of the
total mortality compared with 88.23 per cent. in 1895,
and 83.59 in 1894.
Tubercular diseases were the cause of 89 deaths,
while in 1895 the number of deaths from these was 121.
The decennial average corrected for increase of population
was 126, so that in 1896 the number of deaths was
37 below the average.
The number of deaths in internal institutions was
16, and in external institutions, of persons belonging to