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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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Parish of Wandsworth.
105
Zymotic Diseases.
In 1895 the number of deaths from these diseases was
94, 32 less than last year, and 63 less than the decennial
average. There were only two years during the decennium,
when the number of deaths from diseases of a
zymotic nature was fewer, viz., in 1887, when 71 deaths
occurred, and in 1889, when 49 deaths occurred. The
number during 1895 would have been further diminished
had it not been for the epidemic of influenza in the
beginning of the year which caused 36 deaths.
Table IV. shows the total deaths, and the deathrate
from zymotic diseases, with the total deaths from
all causes, and the percentage of deaths from these to
deaths from all causes. The same information is given
for the preceding 10 years, and the number above or
below the average is also stated.