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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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82
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
other Diseases. The subjoined table indicates the proportion
of deaths, classified as Constitutional, Local, Developmental,
Violence, and ail other diseases in the Mortality
Table, and is comparative for the past seven years.

Table: TABLE VI.Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.

TABLE VI.

Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.

CAUSES OF DEATH.1889.1890.1891.1889.1893.1894.1896.
Constitutional.Tubercular50494142393943
Other Constitutional Diseases..21343834393639
Local.Nervous77687772725767
Circulatory37284635463766
Respiratory65951271)111782121
Digestive35293632333338
Urinary13131319141819
Generative73..472..
Locomotory....261....
Integumentary....1........
Developmental.'Premature Birth
Low Vitality44454145674048
Congenital defects
Age20402940525437
Violence99511101711
All other Diseases..31..52..

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Many of the diseases are of the average number
and particular comment is, therefore, rendered unnecessary.
Deaths from respiratory disease contributed 121
deaths to the total mortality, compared with 82 during
1894, which might be anticipated from the severe
weather experienced during the earlier portion of the
year.
There was considerable increase in the number of
deaths from circulatory diseases.