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Wandsworth 1901

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

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Table: Report of the Medical Officer of Health.TABLE XXV.Deaths from Non-Zymotic Diseases.

Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

TABLE XXV.

Deaths from Non-Zymotic Diseases.

1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.1899.1900.1901.
Cancer8910310190115118154154159178147202
Tubercular Diseases265246256228234256245276309305374388
Circulatory „150180185179172206271261254325339298
Respiratory „473510453488340486369355485469577477
Premature Birth174170183215164218189216207248242274
Violence66546159667069598l81109114
All other Diseases674650696712631687663667706641924951
Totals189119131935197117222041196019882201224727122704

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The above were the cause of 85.3 per cent. of the total
deaths, compared with 86.1 in 1900.
Cancer.
A large increase is noticeable in the number of deaths from
this disease, 202, compared with 147 last year. The corrected
death-rate was .86 per 1,000, compared with .65 last year. The
number of deaths and the death-rate in each of the sub-districts
was as follows:—Clapham 54 and 1.04, Putney 20 and .82,
Streatham 74 and 1.01, Tooting 10 and .58, and Wandsworth 44
and .63.
Of the 202 deaths, 63 were of males and 139 of females.
The death-rate of males per 1,000 living was .60, and of
females 1.07.
Tubercular Diseases.
From diseases of the Tubercular class 388 deaths were registered,
compared with 374 in 1900. 259 of these deaths occurred
from Phthisis or Tubercular disease of the Lungs, 52 from Tubercular
disease of the Brain, and 77 from other forms of Tubercular
disease.