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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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of general or non-zymotic diseases, all the causes of death,
except diseases of the Digestive and Urinary Organs
and Violence, being greatly in excess.
TABLE IV. Non-zymotic Mortality.
| Causes of Death. | 1876. | 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1885. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. above corrected average. | No. below corrected average. | ||||||||||||
| Constitutional | Tubercular | 64 | 54 | 60 | 62 | 60 | 51 | 69 | 64 | 85 | 90 | 15 | .. |
| Other Constitutional | 18 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 28 | 8 | .. | |
| Nervous | 125 | 111 | 111 | 96 | 106 | 121 | 106 | 116 | 128 | 145 | 16 | .. | |
| Local. | Circulstory | 26 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 28 | 28 | 25 | 22 | 36 | 7 | .. |
| Respiratory | 58 | 42 | 86 | 125 | 89 | 90 | 87 | 69 | 70 | 101 | 13 | .. | |
| Digestive | 29 | 18 | 29 | 21 | 21 | 28 | 28 | 35 | 47 | 22 | .. | 9 | |
| Urinary | 6 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 12 | .. | 1 | |
| Generative | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 3 | 6 | 3 | .. | |
| Locomotory | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | |
| Integumentary | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | .. | |
| Developmental. | Premature Birth | ||||||||||||
| Malformation | 22 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 27 | 37 | 27 | 23 | 40 | 37 | 5 | .. | |
| Low Vitality Age | 16 | 13 | 14 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 27 | 33 | 42 | 34 | 6 | .. | |
| Violence | 14 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 | .. | 3 | |
| Not specified | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | |
Zymotic Mortality. The following table exhibits the total
Epidemic Diseases, deaths that occurred from Zymotic Distheir
prevalence eases, specifying those that resulted from
and fatality the seven principal Epidemic Diseases
during the past and ten preceding years, and the relative
proportion which they bore to the deaths from all
causes:—