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Wandsworth 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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90
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
whooping cough. This disease likewise showed considerable
reduction in mortality during the year, 11
deaths only being recorded, compared with 25 during
the preceding year. Eight of the deaths were of
infants under one year of age, and three between the
ages of one and five years.

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

TABLE IX.

Comparative Table of Non-zymotic Mortality.

CAUSES OF DEATH.1892.1698.1894.1895.1896. •1897.1898.1899.1900.
Constitutional.Tubercular423939434364766266
Other Constitu
tional Diseases ..343936396133426143
Local.''Nervous7272676760626877100
Circulatory364637666970699293
Respiratory111117821211038016897133
Digestive323333382441384654
Urinary191418192321272125
Generative472..62122
Locomotory61. ...21....2
Integumentary..................
Developmental.Premature Birth Low Vitality466740486647617969
Congenital defects Age406264374740665667
Violence111017111719181917
All other Diseases..62....22..4

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Note.—The figures in this Table relate to the deaths actually registered in the Sub-district.
The foregoing Table classifies the mortality from the
several non-zymotic diseases registered in Streatham during
the past ten years. With the exception of diseases of the
Tubercular class, they are more or less of an uncontrollable
character from a public health aspect, and therefore a minute
discussion is neither practicable nor of much value Deaths
from Tubercular diseases compare favourably with previous