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

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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 1876

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]

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Table: To assist us in comparing these figures with those of former years the following Table may be useful.

To assist us in comparing these figures with those of former years the following Table may be useful.

Years.18G6J 867186818991870187118721873187418751876
Tubercular1721242018222419242626
Of Brain, Nerves,&c.2019161718192026392326
Of the Heart, &c.79969914138136
Of Kespiiatory OrKans2120211531292G21303623
Of Digestive Organs898111787121175
Of Urinary Organs1225154387
Of Organs of Generation...221...1...2...11
Of Joints, Bones,&c.1...2...1...11...11
Of Skin...1...........................
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Mai formation, &c9139118115771610
Of Uncertain Seat52465552611
Age451487336118
Violence94684405647
Not Specified21.....12212......
Totals10410810499125118124116146147121

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The alteration in the population, and therefore the
relative proportion of the figures, must be remembered
in this as in all comparative Tables. The fatality
from Nervous Diseases was slightly above the average,
and that from Respiratory Diseases and from Premature
Birth, &c., decidedly under it. Other diseases were
about the average. It will be seen that there is an
alteration in the relative proportion of Respiratory to
Tubercular diseases, the former being usually in excess of
the latter.
Ages of the Deceased.—The mortality among children
shows a decrease of thirteen from that of 1875 and a