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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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Parish of Wandsworth.
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Non-Zymotic Diseases.
Table VIII shows the number of deaths from nonzymotic
diseases for the year, for the ten years preceding,
and also shows the number above or below the corrected
decennial average.
TABLE VIII.

Table: Comparative Table of Non-Zymotic Mortality.

Comparative Table of Non-Zymotic Mortality.

Diseases.188818891890189118921893189418951896189718981898
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
Constitutional.Tubercular11472991078779971218994115••.08
Other Constitutional30324831543651346757541.2..
Local.Nervous1129010310412311011112281114101..28
Circulatory4526463957576i51897810641.2..
Respiratory12887177201144184128140122117164..73
Digestive34314?,5134625156725S43..15.9
Urinary2217172236282422212416..119
Generative5fi6996958571
Locomotory..222..........21.04..
Integumentary .1..1..1......12••...72
Developmental.Premature Birth Malformation Low Vitality413654666072588271807626••
Age253324272629385352565511.5••
Violence23152724182523172922292.3..
Ill-defined or Not specified412224••1••1••••2.04

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The total number of deaths from the above was 767,
compared with 710 in 1697, and 705 in 1896. These
deaths formed 79.8 per cent. of the total mortality, compared
with 84-7 in 1897, and 79.5 in 1896.
After correction for institutions the total number of
deaths was 758, or 77.4 per cent. of the total mortality,
compared with 743, or 82.3 per cent. in 1897.