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Wandsworth 1897

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

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46
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Deaths from Non-zymotic Diseases.

Table: The appended table gives the number of deaths in the last 10 years, and shows whether these for 1897 are above or below the decennial average corrected for increase of population.TABLE VI.

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The appended table gives the number of deaths in the last 10 years, and shows whether these for 1897 are above or below the decennial average corrected for increase of population.

TABLE VI.

	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	Number above corrected decennial average.	N umber below corrected decennial average.
Gout and Rheumatism	9	4	6	9	7	8	5	6	1	6	6	..	..
Cancer and other Tumours	30	18	21	29	32	26	28	40	42	42	66	32	..
Other Constitutional Diseases	7	6	2	5	3	1	9	..	2	7	2	..	3
T ubertular	75	68	69	79	71	90	67	66	61	78	90	11	..
Nervous	81	70	74	77	74	54	68	53	72	57	54	..	20
Circulatory	52	43	56	57	59	62	48	51	58	72	64	3	. .
Respiratory	110	103	105	139	125	116	113	88	146	89	104	..	20
Digestive	46	41	18	26	32	36	34	38	22	24	24	..	10
Urinary	14	9	15	15	12	16	22	13	15	16	14	..	2
Generative	2	2	1	5	1	2	4	..	5	7	3	..	..
Locomotory	..	..	1	1	..	1	1	..	..	1	2	..	..
Integumentary	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..
Premature Birth, I,owVitality,&c.	46	49	50	44	48	51	58	47	52	50	58	4	..
Old Age	18	34	37	27	20	14	14	10	26	14	19	..	4
Violence	9	13	13	16	15	24	13	12	13	14	14	..	1
Ill-defined and Not Specified	..	..	..	3	1	2	3	4	..	..	..	..	..

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Cancer, etc.
The deaths numbered 66, a very large number
and showing an excess over the decennial
average of no less than 32. Of these, however, 19
occurred in the Home for the Dying, and do not properly
belong to Clapham. There still remains, however, a
considerable increase under this heading; the total being
largely in excess of any single year.
Tubercular
Diseases.
There were 90 deaths from this cause, exceeding
the decennial average by 11. These 11,
however, all occurred in the Home for the Dying, and were

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Table: The appended table gives the number of deaths in the last 10 years, and shows whether these for 1897 are above or below the decennial average corrected for increase of population.TABLE VI.

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