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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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116 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

Table: TABLE VIII.COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

TABLE VIII.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NON-ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.

Diseases.188518861887188818891890189118921893189418951895
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
Constitutional.Tubercular90871111147299107877997121..11.8
Other Constitutional2830323032483154365134..17
Local.Nervous14515111511290103104123110111122..38
Circulatory3646324526463957575251..9
Respiratory10113511012887177201144184128140..52
Digestive22303034314251346251562..
Urinary1226172217172236282422..8
Generative64255699695..3.4
Locomotory2..1..222..........1.2
Integumentary3....1..1..1.........82
Developmental.Premature Birth Malformation374538413654666072588213..
Low Vitality Age343236253324272629385311.3..
Violence1517132315272418252317..10
Ill-defined or Not specified..32412224..1..1.7

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The above diseases were the cause of 704 deaths,
forming 88.23 of the total mortality, as compared with
83.59 in 1894.
From diseases of a tubercular nature 121 deaths
occurred, as compared with 97 deaths in 1894, an increase
of 24, but is 11.8 below the corrected decennial average.
Phthisis pulmonalis alone was the cause of 69 deaths, 12
of these occurring in internal institutions, while 21
occurred outside the district among persons belonging to
it. This gives a corrccted total of 78 compared with 75
in 1894, and a death-rate per 1,000 of 1.35 compared
with 1.41. This rate is .38 lower than the average of
England and Wales for the decennium 1881-90.