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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 1898

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

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78 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The death-rate from notifiable diseases was equal
to 0.6 per thousand of the population, the rate corresponding
with that for 1897.
Other Diseases.
The following Table shows the proportion of
deaths, classified as constitutional, local, developmental,
violence, and all other diseases in the Mortality 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.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1898.
Constitutional.Tubercular494142393943436475
Other Constitu tional Diseases343834393639613342
Local.Nervous687772725767606268
Circulatory284635463766697069
Respiratory951271111178212110380158
Digestive293632333338244138
Urinary131319141819232227
Generative3..472..621
Locomotory..261....21..
Integumentary••1••••••••..••••
Developmental.Premature Birth Low Vitality454145674048564751
Congenital defects Age402940525437474056
Violence9511101711171918
All other Diseases31••52••••22

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From many of the causes of death the numbers are
about normal and require no comment. In the Constitutional
class, including Tubercular diseases, a slight
increase is shown, and a very large increase in the
Respiratory class. The latter, as referred to in a
previous paragraph, being largely associated with Influenza.
It is to this class that the higher general deathrate
is due.