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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 1900

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

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134 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Non-Zymotic Diseases.
Table XII. shows the number of deaths from nonzymotic
diseases during the year, for the ten years
preceding, and also the number above or below the
corrected decennial average,

Table: TABLE XII.Comparative Table of Non-Zymotic Mortality.

TABLE XII.

Comparative Table of Non-Zymotic Mortality.

Diseases.189018911892189318941895189618971898189919001900
No. above corrected average.No. below corrected average.
Constitutional.Tubercular99107877997121899411510614323.8..
Other Constitutional4831543651346757546035..24
Local.Nervous103104123110111122841141011169337.5
Circulatory46395757525189781061079917.2..
Respiratory17720114418412814012211716415518732..
Digestive42,513462515672584365706..
Urinary1722362824222124161123..3.5
Generative699695857644. 4
Locomotory22..........21......8
Integumentary .1..1......12........6
Developmental.Premature Birth5466607258827180767866..17. 6
Malformation Low Vitality Age24272629385362565573653..
Violence27241825231729222925312. 4..
Ill-defined or Not specified2224••1..1..31..8

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From non-zymotic diseases, 807 deaths occurred
during the year, compared with 805 in 1899, 767 in
1898, 710 in 1897, and 705 in 1896. These deaths
formed 83 7 per cent, of the total mortality, compared
with 83'9 in 1899. Corrected for institutions the total
number of deaths was 815, or 82.5 per cent, of the
total mortality, compared with 804 or 82.3 per cent,
in 1899.