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Wandsworth 1895

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

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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

TABLE VII.

Showing the total number of deaths and their causes, registered in the entire District during the nine years 1887-95, with the relative numbers of each class of disease:—

188718881889189018911892189318941895
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever1214525101377
Diphtheria205330152236543924
Membranous Croup..........917139
Typhus1..1............
ZYMOTIC.Enterio Fever10139141010141818
Continued Fever........2211..
Puerperal Fever263867796
Cholera..................
Erysipelas115556141094
M easles085331877878327925
Whooping Cough419639957589745322
Influenza......21611126343126
Diarrhoea and Dysentery70644173518210454106
Other Zymotic Diseases....5281..61
Totals of Zymotic Class240304169322324450389331348
Gout and Rheumatism261814331621202611
Cancer and other Tumours7870688910310190115118
Other constitutional diseases181215382125231616
Tubercular268257219265246256228231256
Nervous292298282294287302295246308
Circulatory142160146150180185179172206
Respiratory330357302473510453488340486
Digestive119119107123149131157149144
Urinary525050505579696165
Generative4714181221181213
Locomotory1..3348211
Integumentary14..1111....
Premature Births, Low Vitality, and Malformation144156149174170183215164218
Old Age97961031049595114114128
Violence394848666461596670
Ill-defined and not specified4891010131361
Totals18 3519641698221322372385236020532389

Zymotic
Diseases. In the above table 348 deaths are set down
to diseases of this class. It does not include those
deaths that occurred in outlying institutions however,
nor the numerous deaths from scarlet fever and diphtheria
that occurred in the Fountain Hospital at Tootiug