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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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82
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Other Diseases.
The following Table shows the proportion of
cieams, classified as constitutional, local, developmental,
violence, and all other diseases in the Mortalitv Table,
and is comparative of the past nine years:—

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

TABLE VII.

Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.

CAUSES OF DEATH.1889.1890.1891.189?.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.
Constitutional.Tubercular504941423939434364
Other Constitutional Diseases213438343936396133
Local.Nervous776877727257676062
Circulatory372846354637666970
Respiratory65951271111178212110380
Digestive352936323333382441
Urinary131313191418192321
Generative73. .472..62
Loeomotory....261....21
Integumentary....1............
Developmental.Premature Birth )
Low Vitality414541456740485647
Congenital defects; Age204029405254374740
Violence995111017111719
All other Diseases..31..52....2

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Particular comment is superfluous in regard to
many of the diseases, the mortality being about equal
to that of previous years.
Tubercular and Digestive Diseases show a marked
increase, and "other constitutional" and respiratory
diseases, a correspondingly marked decrease.
Ages at Death. The number of deaths under one year of age
was 146 ; under five, 190, and under twenty-five, 231.