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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 1885

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

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73
Constitutional
and Other
Diseases.
There is nothing of note to mention
regarding these classes. Tubercular and
respiratory diseases as usual show the unvarying
pre-eminence they have obtained in the English climate.
They constitute one third of the total deaths from
all causes. Many nervous (e.g., convulsions) and
other diseases bear a relation to the tubercular class
not often noted, and go to show how important a
part that deadly disease plays in cutting our lives
prematurely short.

Table: Table IV. gives the ten years retrospect of the diseases of these classes.TABLE IV.

Table IV. gives the ten years retrospect of the diseases of these classes.

TABLE IV.

Years.1876187718781879188018811882188318841885
CGout & Rheumatism....31444551
Cancer & Tumours....73616858
Tubercular26263223181712212425
LNervous26292834332133343926
Circulatory681213131412141117
Respiratory23293742272429303129
Digestive512109131715151213
Urinary711246266106
Generative12..1..22411
Locomotory12................
Integumentary..1..2111..21
DPremature Birth, Atrophy, &c.108781618717139
Old Age88759651077
VViolence7957613715114
(Other diseases)13..............2
Totals121148150152152140139196171149

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Ages of the
Deceased.
Among young children the mortality
of the year 1885 is not so high as in
some years and some districts. This is due to the
fact that greater care and better surroundings protect
infantile life among the well-to-do from those dangers
which ignorance, vice, and sometimes crime cause to