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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 1895

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

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48
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

Table: TABLE VI.

TABLE VI.

18851886188718881889189018911892189318941895Number above corrected decennial average.Number below corrected decennial average.
Gout andRheumatism339469785615
Cancer and other Tumours162330182129322628404212..
Other Constitutional Diseases1676253192..2
Tubercular6877756869797190676661..23
Nervous8079817074777454685372..10
Circulatory4035524956575962485158..1
Respiratory1201031101031051391251161138814616..
Digestive3039464118263236343822..17
Urinary61614915151216221315..1
Generative75221512452..
Locomotory11....11..11........
Integumentary....11..................
Premature Birth, Low Vitality,&c.3628464950444851584752....
Old Age3133183437272014141026..1
Violence81291313161524131213..3
Ill-defined and Not Specified..1......31234......

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Deaths from on-zymotic Diseases.
Only one death was referred to Gout and Rheumatism.
Cancer and other Tumours caused 42 deaths, 12 above
the corrected decennial average. To this also should be
added 12 that occurred in outlying institutions, but it
includes 12 deaths of non-parishioners, in the Home for
the Dying. Still there is seen from the above table to be
an increase in these deaths.
Tubercular Diseases.—There were only 61 deaths
from diseases of this class, which includes consumption,
and they were 23 below the corrected decennial
average. This is satisfactory as it is undoubted that